Closed Bug 1445568 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

Command line to open in private mode (-private-window) has weird behavior

Categories

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Private Browsing
Version:
60 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1442749

People

(Reporter: vs.mahesh, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0
Build ID: 20180307142707

Steps to reproduce:

1. Navigate to firefox developer edition (60.0b2 (64-bit)) installation directory in Windows 10 (Home edition). In my case it is:
C:\Program Files\Firefox Developer Edition.
2. Try to open any url using the following command. (I am trying to open a news portal from India)
firefox.exe -private-window http://www.thehindu.com/


Actual results:

This will open the site in a private tab as expected; however it starts another non-private empty window too! 


Expected results:

Only private tab should appear and there is no reason for opening the non-private window

Note: I see a similar issue reported 7 years ago in Firefox 4. But the status seems to be fixed, I thought creating a new one.
Summary: Command line to open in private mode has weird behavior → Command line to open in private mode (-private-window) has weird behavior
This works fine if I use the command line attribute '-private' instead of '-private-window'.
The similar issue mentioned is here- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=631973

This is related to '-private' command line option.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Has Regression Range: --- → no
Has STR: --- → yes
Closed: 6 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Private Browsing
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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