359751 - Feature request: ability to open a new window in a sandbox environment; clearing all private data generated by that window on close

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 463027

(Firefox :: Security, enhancement)

Description

[Nat Harward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

I love the "clear private data" feature of 2.0; the next logical step in my mind and a very desirable feature (I suspect to others as well) is to open a new "private" window, in which anything that happens there is "session only" and when closed invokes the "clear private data" for only that window/session. Basically just a window that is completely sandboxed.  Perhaps also as a menu item off of a right-clicked hyperlink (open in private window...)?

I try to keep track of and clean my cookies and cache, if someone sends me a link to some unknown place it would be great to know that I can open it up in a special window/tab and when I close it, all of the cookies/cache/etc. that it generates will be gone.

If this is a duplicate I apologize, I could not find anything like this while searching through the bug list.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A -- feature request

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Something like the Stealther extension?
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1306/

Comment 2

[Nat Harward]

Re: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1306/

Like that, but I was hoping that rather than disabling cookies/cache/etc. altogether, that it would just be for "private" windows -- my other windows and tabs would still work as normal.  Perhaps that's what this extension does, but from the description it sounds like a more global setting.

I will email the developer and see how it works, if it can do per window/tab either now or easily in the future I'll close out this request, but otherwise I think it'd be a great thing to have.

Comment 3

[Nat Harward]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I will email the developer and see how it works, if it can do per window/tab
> either now or easily in the future I'll close out this request, but otherwise I
> think it'd be a great thing to have.

Well I haven't heard anything from the developer, so I will leave this open as I still think it's a neat feature.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Firefox new "private mode" will be a step towards this, but probably not yet the exact per-window behaviour as requested in this bug. Nice idea.

Comment 5

[David]

This should be marked as a duplicate of bug 463027.