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My issue with Firefox is essentially one bug where they refuse to fix. In private mode, previously closed tabs are, for some reasons, restorable. This doesn't h
by esturk 7y ago
My issue with Firefox is essentially one bug where they refuse to fix. In private mode, previously closed tabs are, for some reasons, restorable. This doesn't happen for Safari or Chrome.
- ravenstine 7y agoHow do you make that happen? I can't seem to reproduce it.
- fencepost 7y agoI believe this is within the same Private Browsing session, so if you're closing the window (default behavior with the last tab I think) you may not be seeing it.
- ravenstine 7y agoOh, I thought they meant restoring a whole session, but yes, I see that it will restore a tab if you just closed it.
- bepvte 7y agoI actually use this feature regularly... I consider a private browsing session gone when its window is gone, typically. Either way, nothing is saved to disk
- bavell 7y agoCan confirm. Though it doesn't really bother me personally - I think I actually prefer this behavior and don't consider it a bug.
- kibwen 7y agoI thought there was some kind of time limit after which closed private tabs are no longer restorable? I'd prefer that to immediately losing the closed tab, if the time limit is reasonable (say, 30 seconds).
- proxygeek 7y agoWouldn't getting able to restore a recently closed tab even in private mode be somewhat similar to having your browsing history being kept, even if for that particular browsing session? I prefer this behaviour of limiting the browsing history per tab per session instead of the way Chrome implements it
- sjwright 7y agoDefinitely not a bug. It's a private window, not a private tab. As soon as you close the window, all history is gone.
- rifung 7y agoIs that a bug or a feature? I wish they had this in Chrome
- ubercow13 7y agoThat's a feature. Chrome will refuse to remember history so that you can reopen the tab, however it will remember all other data from the closed tab such as cookies. If you log into a website in an incognito window, close all tabs of that website and then open a new tab and navigate to the site again, you'll still be logged in. It tricks you into thinking that session state is kept only per-tab by disabling a useful feature (history), however the incognito session's state is actually scoped per-window and not properly cleared/forgotten until you close the window. Firefox knows how to have temporary window-local cookies/site data _and_ history. Chrome doesn't know how to keep the history. It's a missing feature IMHO.