Closed Bug 858838 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Private window: after clicking to load a website on the Google-result page, the regular FF Window appears on top

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

20 Branch
x86_64
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 768802

People

(Reporter: ovaalst, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20130326150557

Steps to reproduce:

* Start Firefox normally (no permanent private browsing), you see the home screen now
* Open a new private window (this window appears on top of the regular FF Window)
* Press home button and enter as search: solarham
* Click on the first result on google (solarham.com/ Solar cycle 24... etc. in blue;
	(www.solarham.net in green)


Actual results:

* Website loads
* This website and also some others causing Firefox to show the regular Firefox-window on top after loading the page
	- this is confusing
	- If you don't pay attention, you could get the impression that the website didn't load, or something
	- You might want to try again in the regular window now. (if you don't pay attention that this is now the regular Window.)
	- This is a safety hazard for the user (not for the browser)


Expected results:

I expected that the Private Window would remain to appear on top.

* I clicked on the security icon, that this is a security problem, just to be sure.
No repro

I am not getting this to repro, I am still seeing the private browsing icon (purple box with whit mask) in upper right) indicating PB is still active. What makes you think that PB is still not active?
PB is active, that is not the problem.

There is, in my opinion, a user experience problem because of this confusion. Right after loading the page, the PB-window will go the background. You will see the regular window now.
At first I didn't notice that the other window now was on the front (I was working with PB Windows) and I didn't switch the Window myself in the taskbar to show the regular Window.

Because I started in PB window at the homepage, I assumed that the browser reverted back to the homepage and tried again... but I only discovered later that this now was the regular window....
This is also reproducable with Nightly. It also works by directly entering the webadress: solarham.net

I could record the issue if you like, so you can see what I mean. I think this PB behaviour is wrong anyway.
Group: core-security
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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