1419051 - Add a boss key

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, enhancement)

Description

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

Add an easy way to close or hide/mute the private browsing windows.

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

RESOLVING:WONTFIX ... 

This is a neat idea, but I'm afraid of the mis-understandings that "hide/mute" introduces to users of Private Browsing. As much as possible, we want to make it clear to users that private browsing windows & data go away when they are closed. Adding a "hide/mute" feature in addition to "close" blurs that otherwise clear concept.

We currently have a keyboard shortcut to *close* the entire window (including all its tabs).

It may be possible for an add-on to do this via the windows API ... ?

>windows = await browser.windows.getAll();
>for (window of windows) {
>  if (window.icognito === true) {
>    browser.windows.update(window.id, {state: "minimized"});
>  }
>}

If we have more specific use-cases, or a threat-model not covered by close-entire-window, we might REOPEN this.