469997 - Tabs persist into private browsing mode when browser.privatebrowsing.autostart is toggled to true

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 467565

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[u88484]

When browser.privatebrowsing.autostart is toggled to true, whatever tabs were open the next close of Firefox (the time before your next start into PB mode) will open each time Firefox is started with browser.privatebrowsing.autostart;true.

STR:
1) Open in separate tabs www.yahoo.com, www.google.com, www.cnn.com
2) Go to about:config
3) Toggle 'browser.privatebrowsing.autostart' to true
4) Close about:config tab
5) Close Firefox
6) Open Firefox (which will now be in autostart private browsing mode)
7) Note that the tabs in step 1 are opened along with Firefox
8) Click the tab close button on the google and cnn tabs
9) Repeat steps 5 through 7.

You can not get rid of those tabs unless you toggle 'browser.privatebrowsing.autostart' to false, restart Firefox and close those tabs.

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

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