1899520 - Option to reopen private tab as a normal tab

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Privacy, enhancement)

Description

[Denis Müller [:Webworkr]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 14; Mobile; rv:128.0) Gecko/128.0 Firefox/128.0

Steps to reproduce:

Via bug 1807545 there is the option to reopen private tab as a normal tab.

Actual results:

However, this option is only available if all tabs are opened in private mode by default.

Expected results:

This option should always be displayed in the menu and not depending on this default setting.

Comment 1

[Denis Müller [:Webworkr]]

CC miralobontiu

Comment 2

[Denis Müller [:Webworkr]]

CC Jonathan Almeida [:jonalmeida]

Comment 3

[Denis Müller [:Webworkr]]

CC Roger Yang [:royang]

Comment 4

[Denis Müller [:Webworkr]]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863790#c6

Comment 5

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

Bug 1807545 added an "Open in regular tab" option, but https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android/commit/bcac2911a42dea8a66b0c0bec0531310d5a94342 says:

The feature is only enabled for users with the "Open links in a private tab" option enabled - such users who follow links from external applications will always have these tabs opened as private, so may wish to "opt-out" of individual tabs being private. Users without this option set will not have private tabs opened by default, so have already opted-in to each private tab - thus, those users are unlikely to benefit from this feature.

The feature is added to the main menu - however, as above, it will only be visible when a private tab is open and "Open links in a private tab" is enabled, so will only be seen by a minority of users.

The feature is also enabled only for Nightly while it is polished, but the intention is that it eventually ride to release.

Comment 6

[Denis Müller [:Webworkr]]

The option “reopen in standard tab” (bug 1807545) has also been unavailable for several months if all tabs are opened in private tabs by default. I don't know at the moment whether there is another ticket for this.

Need info request for for investigation