595687 - When starting with the -private parameter, there is no indication that private browsing is in operation

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Private Browsing, defect)

Description

[Jez]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/6.0.472.55 Safari/534.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100824 Firefox/3.6.9 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When starting Firefox with the -private parameter, there is no indication that private browsing is in operation: the usual "(Private Browsing)" in the Title Bar does not appear.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox with the "-private" command-line parameter

Actual Results:  
Firefox gives no indication that private browsing has successfully been invoked

Expected Results:  
The message "(Private browsing)" in the Title bar

Comment 1

[(no longer active)]

This is by design.  We do not show PB indicators in the UI for permanent private browsing mode.