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Until Firefox address privacy concerns, I'm not going back. Try opening private tabs and going some where. Now close it and reopen it with Ctrl+Shift+T. All the

by esturk 8y ago

Until Firefox address privacy concerns, I'm not going back. Try opening private tabs and going some where. Now close it and reopen it with Ctrl+Shift+T. All the browsing history is still there. Safaria dna Chrome doesn't do this.

rpenm 8y ago
You can reopen tabs in a private window, but the session appears to be lost when you close the window.
- cpeterso 8y ago
  That's correct. And all private tabs and windows share the same private session, which is discarded when the last private tab is closed.
Sylos 8y ago
It goes away when you close the Private Browsing window. I cannot feasibly imagine a situation where you need your browsing history to be purged as you close individual tabs. Like, what are you gonna do? Close the tab to have its browsing history purged, when you take a pee break from searching wedding rings, but leave the Private Browsing window open? Just close the window entirely. It's also very much expected behaviour for many users, to be able to reopen tabs and I'd consider it a bug, if I weren't able to. What's more, Chrome has you covered for actual privacy concerns. When you use Chrome Sync, Google gets your browsing history and bookmarks in readable form (and they declare that they use these in their privacy policy). Which means US intelligence agencies, as well as befriended intelligence agencies from other countries, also have access to your data. When auto-filling data, Chrome will fill out all input fields on a page, even ones that you cannot see. So, dodgy webpages may very well have your address, phone number etc.. Chrome's extension store also has a massive malware problem. Mozilla has human reviewers to prevent this and also requires extension to get user consent for internet connections that are not necessary for the functioning of the extension (telemetry, ads). To sort of mitigate this problem, Chrome doesn't allow extensions to run in Incognito Mode, which however also locks out privacy enhancing extension. Firefox also blocks tracking scripts and similar in Private Browsing mode by default.

by esturk 8y ago

rpenm 8y ago

You can reopen tabs in a private window, but the session appears to be lost when you close the window.

cpeterso 8y ago
That's correct. And all private tabs and windows share the same private session, which is discarded when the last private tab is closed.

Sylos 8y ago

It goes away when you close the Private Browsing window. I cannot feasibly imagine a situation where you need your browsing history to be purged as you close individual tabs. Like, what are you gonna do? Close the tab to have its browsing history purged, when you take a pee break from searching wedding rings, but leave the Private Browsing window open? Just close the window entirely. It's also very much expected behaviour for many users, to be able to reopen tabs and I'd consider it a bug, if I weren't able to. What's more, Chrome has you covered for actual privacy concerns. When you use Chrome Sync, Google gets your browsing history and bookmarks in readable form (and they declare that they use these in their privacy policy). Which means US intelligence agencies, as well as befriended intelligence agencies from other countries, also have access to your data. When auto-filling data, Chrome will fill out all input fields on a page, even ones that you cannot see. So, dodgy webpages may very well have your address, phone number etc.. Chrome's extension store also has a massive malware problem. Mozilla has human reviewers to prevent this and also requires extension to get user consent for internet connections that are not necessary for the functioning of the extension (telemetry, ads). To sort of mitigate this problem, Chrome doesn't allow extensions to run in Incognito Mode, which however also locks out privacy enhancing extension. Firefox also blocks tracking scripts and similar in Private Browsing mode by default.