Being able to restore the previous session in private browsing mode, which appears inconsistent with the expected behavior of session data not being retained.
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(Firefox :: Session Restore, defect)
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(Reporter: milindhvijay, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:121.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/121.0
Steps to reproduce:
Steps to Reproduce:
Open Firefox in private browsing mode using the shortcut Cmd + Shift + P.
Open two tabs and navigate to google.com in both tabs.
Close the first tab.
Press Cmd + Shift + T to restore the closed tab.
Actual results:
The closed tab is successfully restored, indicating an inconsistency in the expected behavior of private browsing mode.
Expected results:
The closed tab in private browsing mode should not be restored, maintaining the privacy feature of not retaining session data.
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Comment 1•2 years ago
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The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Session Restore' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.
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Updated•2 years ago
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Comment 2•2 years ago
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(In reply to milindhvijay from comment #0)
Expected results:
The closed tab in private browsing mode should not be restored, maintaining the privacy feature of not retaining session data.
This is currently the expected behavior - we try to provide a baseline of browser behavior for both normal and private windows. There is some more discussion about this in bug 1808085 and if it should change.
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