1691298 - Private browser collects and retains searches.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Fenix :: General, defect)

Description

[cloudsrepair]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; SAMSUNG SM-A107M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) SamsungBrowser/13.2 Chrome/83.0.4103.106 Mobile Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

When typing in private browser mode, previous searches are propagated as search suggestions.

Actual results:

As described above, previous searches are reprosuced while typing in private browsing mode.

Expected results:

Private browser mode should dete search entries on closing.
Huge security breach where privacy is expected.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

What are your search settings in the browser? There is a checkbox that says to show these in private browsing down at the bottom -- is that checked?

We do see the NON-private search history showing, despite the checkbox, but the PRIVATE searches are not suggested. The searches made in non-private mode are not private, so it's OK to show them.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Do you mean the individual word suggestions at the top of your keyboard? Whether those are saved depend on what keyboard you use. The Google "Gboard" keyboard and Microsoft SwiftKey honor the browser's private browsing / incognito mode and don't save what you type. Many other keyboards don't seem to care, for example the default keyboard from my phone manufacturer.