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There are UX problems with the Chrome style, though. Many, many times I've debugged issues developers are seeing because they thought they had closed their last
by ZoFreX 14y ago
There are UX problems with the Chrome style, though. Many, many times I've debugged issues developers are seeing because they thought they had closed their last incognito window and then opened a new one, but there was another one minimised in the background somewhere that persisted their cookies.
Yes, the Firefox mode is far more awkward for quick testing, but it does have the advantage of making it explicitly clear when you start and end your private browsing session.
- unicornporn 14y agoSo true. Took me a while before I realized each Incognito Window wasn't isolated (but shared cookies etc). A better behavior here would perhaps be that after having the first Incognito Window open, the next would be become "Incognito Window 2". The "detective icon" could have a number overlay and each window would isolated. If you want to share data between the open pages the natural thing to do would be opening a new tab.
- idm 14y ago+1 to numbering the incognito sessions. Sometimes I need to simulate two user accounts polling some web service, or perhaps simulate a chat-like environment. Point is: I need two separate cookie jars. I've accomplished this using profiles, or by using my incognito window for "user A" and a profile window for "user B." However, there's less overhead with incognito windows and for development scenarios (which are inherently ad-hoc and temporary), overhead sometimes makes all the difference.