463007 - Switching to a private browsing session kills the session you have open

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[mdew]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081104 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b2pre) Gecko/20081104 Firefox/3.0

private browsing should restore the session when its enabled/disabled. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a few websites
2. Switch to private browsing
3. voila, no more sites!
Actual Results:  
Private browsing should restore the tabs

Expected Results:  
Private browsing kills the session

Comment 1

[Mardeg]

The tabs are restored once you exit Private browsing mode.

I thought the point of private browsing mode was to visit sites you didn't want to show up in the normal mode. Restoring the tabs will make people think the existing sites won't show up in the normal mode history, when clearly they will.

Comment 2

[mdew]

But if you're a user who decides to try out this new function, you'll lose all the sites you have open.. I thought it was logical to restore the open tabs (in private browsing mode) so it avoids data loss for the user.

Comment 3

[Mardeg]

According to http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2008-11-04/dont-leave-trace-private-browsing-firefox first time users will now see a dialog informing them their current tabs will be saved.

Comment 4

[(no longer active)]

Mass moving of all Firefox::General private browsing bugs to Firefox::Private Browsing.

Comment 5

[(no longer active)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> According to
> http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2008-11-04/dont-leave-trace-private-browsing-firefox
> first time users will now see a dialog informing them their current tabs will
> be saved.

Yes indeed.