Closed Bug 799939 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Able to create a home-screen shortcut from a Private Browsing URL

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
ARM
Android
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(firefox18 affected)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox18 --- affected

People

(Reporter: aaronmt, Unassigned)

References

Details

Currently when one visits a URL in a Private Browsing tab one is able to create a home-screen shortcut from the URL

No URL's should leak out from Private Browsing.

(New profile)

i) New Private Browsing tab → (e.g, "http://www.msnbc.com")
ii) Add to Home-Screen

Should the user have the ability to create a 'breadcrumb' shortcut from a Private Browsing URL?
I'm not sure that this is a bug. In desktop dragging a link to the desktop under private browsing the shortcut is not deleted. In the desktop download manager files are not deleted when they are downloaded (though not displayed in the download history). In other words user actions that are expected to persist do.
Same is true of extension installs in private browsing mode.
Correct.  In desktop Firefox, we do not prevent explicit user actions.  A good example is bookmarking something.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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