All the incognito browser windows share the same “session” in Firefox. So say you open an Incognito window to browse Facebook or something, then you open another Incognito window, this new incognito window is linked to the previous incognito window, meaning you are logged into Facebook at that new Incognito window as well. This is because, as I explained before, all the incognito windows share the same “session”
The only way to clear incognito window is to close ALL of them and then create a new incognito window. You dont have to close the main non incognito Firefox window though, just close all the incognito windows. Then open a new one, now your previous session is destroyed and you are new again.
You may know it but its not that common knowledge as it should have been
If you want every tab to have its own session use temporary containers
That would be a nice thing to have
You do have it - look up container tabs
There’s no “would be” about it, this is just an actual feature of Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-firefox-containers
edit: unless you mean specifically disposable ones for which there is an add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/
Do you know if this is available for Android’s Mull?
I’ve tried looking for the option but haven’t found it.
Mozilla has an official addon for it. Very easy.
And it works with hidden tabs, and thus by extension, with the tab groups add-on.
I have a whole group of tabs for uploading add-ons that have their own session, and the group’s behavior is persistent. And I can switch to them on the fly. When not in use, I don’t see them there at all.
I need to twiddle some settings. I can’t get the exact behavior I want yet but I’d like to do pretty much what you are.
Yes it really would been. The temporary is not updated for 3 years so that is quite abandoned.
Firefox some native but they feel more a solution to keeping data you want separate from each other instead of just having a way to isolate then remove.
I use containers for everything. Best thing Mozilla has ever done.
I just wish the containers were by domain by default and automatic.
I think they pretty much are?
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For me that behavior was expected. E.g. if I open a link from incognito in a new window, then it obviously should also use incognito but share its context with the previous sessions, otherwise it would require you to login over and over again. If an independently opened incognito window behaved different from a link-click window, I’d find it even more confusing.
I would say it should be the opposite. Separate windows should be independent but tabs on other hand can share same session.
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In fact, that’s a good way to understand the behavior. Log into a site. Visit the site in your other window. If they share a session, you’ll be logged in. If they don’t, you’ll be logged out.
yeah that seems intended and obvious to me as well
seems counter intuitive… each incognito window should be separated into their containers.
seems like a good idea to take that container addon and apply that to incognito.
why would you expect each tab connected to the same window to each have a different cache or whatever as if it wasnt connected to the same window.
it seems counterintuitive to expect that.
unless yall mean opening up multiple windows then i ask what r u using incognito for so much. nobody cares about you or your data in any significant way thatll affect you.
No not tabs sharing data but windows sharing data is unintuitive
There’s an add on that lets you create custom containers, a container acts as it’s own session in a way, content, cache, cookies etc are all localised to one container
For example, you open youtube in one then open gmail in another container, neither one will know you’re logged into the other
This isn’t well known?
Wish it was
Maybe it’s because I have a programmer mentality but this is exactly the behavior I would expect, otherwise the "open link in new window"won’t work reliably, all popups would fail and you couldn’t “tear” off a tab in a new window
So, safari in ipadOS (that’s the only place I use safari) works the same way, and it’s as annoying as it sounds.
You are someone who knows how Browsers work so you think this way.
It’s the same with Chrome isn’t it?
Yes
I dont know if it is the same in Chrome or not, it could be
I can confirm that this is the case with Microsoft Edge (I know, I know, it’s required for work), which is Chromium-based, so I would be very surprised if Chrome differs significantly in this.
For the record, I don’t think safari works this way. Every incognito window has its own session I believe
It’s not even called incognito in FF.
Use profiles instead of incognito when possible. You can have profiles, with different privacy settings, for anything.
This is so counterintuitive and so important. Thank you.
… Are there people out there expecting more than a private/incognito session not saving your session data when you end it?
That is the sole reason I use private mode, because I don’t want it to save cookies/cached/temp files/history locally for whatever I’m visiting.
Btw, a good addon for doing that all the time is Cookie AutoDelete. Building up the whitelist will take a while, but it’s worth it in the end.
I’ve started to realize that temporary tab containers do almost everything that I used to use incognito mode for, and more.
For reference, private mode in Safari protects you from this.
“protects” you from this? Honestly, this is exactly how I’d expect incognito mode to work.
Does it protect you from Apple too?
Containers!!!
I think what you are looking for is Containers. FF uses containers to wall things off from each other, whereas Private sessions are still all sandboxed together, as you discovered. I know this is quite different from how Safari, for example, handles things, but you can accomplish the same things, just a little differently.
