Closed Bug 1509802 Opened 6 years ago Closed 6 years ago

private tab is not private

Categories

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

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

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 117222

People

(Reporter: drjoms, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:63.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/63.0

Steps to reproduce:

Opened up private window. Logged with gmail.

Opened new private tab in same window.


Actual results:

New private tab, when googled in it - I got my gmail icon on right hand side of google search, indicating that whatever happened in one tab was relevant in another. In other words, even though I used private tab, and searched for something I did not want google to know about - google still knew it was me searching it.

Google couldn't have known based on IP address or anything else(30+ mostly windows laptops under same LAN/NAT). I was at work, and gmail is business email provider, so all computers use gmail there for email purposes.


Expected results:

I would expect new private tab cookies/info to be separate from older private tab.
Requests for private tabs are duped to bug 117222.

The scenario you describe is what containers are for.
https://support.mozilla.org/kb/containers
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Component: Untriaged → Private Browsing
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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