All the incognito browser windows share the same "session" in Firefox. So say you open an Incognito window to browse Facebook or something, then you open another Incognito window, this new incognito window is linked to the previous incognito window, meaning you are logged into Facebook at that new Incognito window as well. This is because, as I explained before, all the incognito windows share the same "session"
The only way to clear incognito window is to close ALL of them and then create a new incognito window. You dont have to close the main non incognito Firefox window though, just close all the incognito windows. Then open a new one, now your previous session is destroyed and you are new again.
You may know it but its not that common knowledge as it should have been
If you want every tab to have its own session use temporary containers
There's no "would be" about it, this is just an actual feature of Firefox
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-firefox-containers
edit: unless you mean specifically disposable ones for which there is an add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-containers/
Do you know if this is available for Android's Mull?
I've tried looking for the option but haven't found it.
Can't say I'm familiar, sorry
I'm pretty sure it would still be implemented at the engine level for mobile but AFAIK at least the regular mobile Firefox has nothing for it in the frontend
No worries! Thanks for getting back to me!
It would be pretty cool if Mull did this as well, surprised it doesn't.
Maybe it's because I have a programmer mentality but this is exactly the behavior I would expect, otherwise the "open link in new window"won't work reliably, all popups would fail and you couldn't "tear" off a tab in a new window
You are someone who knows how Browsers work so you think this way.
seems counter intuitive.. each incognito window should be separated into their containers.
seems like a good idea to take that container addon and apply that to incognito.
I think what you are looking for is Containers. FF uses containers to wall things off from each other, whereas Private sessions are still all sandboxed together, as you discovered. I know this is quite different from how Safari, for example, handles things, but you can accomplish the same things, just a little differently.
I've started to realize that temporary tab containers do almost everything that I used to use incognito mode for, and more.
firefox profiles have a bad UX in my experience. The Multi-Account Containers addon works better. There's also Facebook Container, which uses the multi-account containers addon.
Does incognito mode do anything that temporary containers don't? In a world of 2FA key password managers, having to log in every session is super easy—barely an inconvenience.
I'm kind of a dumb guy about computers, but destroying everything every time seemed like a smart call.
Yeah, I also found out when I was manually testing our product's logged-out UX at work and the 2nd trial started logged in.
