Closed Bug 1823155 Opened 3 years ago Closed 1 year ago

First private window shares cookies/settings with second private window

Categories

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Private Browsing
Version:
Firefox 110
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1197159

People

(Reporter: peter.scholtens, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0

Steps to reproduce:

Opened firefox.
Opened a first private window with Ctrl-Shift-P.
Opened a second private window with again pressing Ctrl-Shift-P.

Actual results:

The first private window exchanges cookies/settings with the second private window. So they are sharing data.

Expected results:

I assumed / expected to have each privacy window to act as a independently from each other. Apparently it is not.
I would like to have the option to have really individual data for each privacy window, e.g. when logging in with two webmail accounts of the same provider.

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Widget: Gtk
Product: Firefox → Core
Summary: privacy → First private window shares cookies/settings with second private window
Component: Widget: Gtk → Private Browsing
Product: Core → Firefox

Waiting for the developer's opinion here, but I think this is intended behavior.
As far as I know, in order to use two private windows independently, you should create a new profile and open a New private window from the corresponding Firefox menu.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 1 year ago
Duplicate of bug: 1197159
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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