1849722 - Suggestions in the search results still pop up in incognito eventhough it is off.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1846579

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[frosterange]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0

Steps to reproduce:

I typed in a letter in Private Windows or Incognito, and recieved a search suggestion in Private Windows or Incognito. My sensitive information was displayed.

Actual results:

I recieved a search suggestion in Private Windows or Incognito.

Expected results:

NOTHING. I had it toggled off.

Comment 1

[frosterange]

I was screensharing and doxxed myself that is why I may have "overreacted" and made made this a security issue because my information was leaked.

Comment 2

[Andrew McCreight [:mccr8]]

I can understand why you were upset, but I think this is expected behavior. The goal of private browsing is to not save history to your local machine, not to prevent state that is already saved on your machine from being visible in the browser.

See Myth 3 on this page.

Comment 3

[Negritas Sergiu, Desktop QA]

Hello! thank you for submitting this issue I have managed to reproduce the issue firefox 118.0a1(2023-08-24) on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04 following the STR provided in the description. I will mark this issue as NEW in order for our developers to get involved.

Have a nice day!

Comment 4

[Tim Huang[:timhuang]]

It doesn't look like a private browsing issue to me, so I am moving the bug to the Address Bar module for better triage.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

We do not have the capability to disable general (bookmark/history) suggestions in private browsing mode currently. Bug 1846579 is looking at adding these.