I almost exclusively use private tabs and had quite a few of them open at any time for things I was working on. But apparently since I’ve last updated the default behavior changed to close private tabs and the option to keep them open was removed.
Digging into it, I’ve found the bug report in the link. The last entry in the bug report is concerning:
It looks like this was discussed in FXIOS-8672, although I don’t have access to that JIRA to take a look at the discussion.
Of the three PRs that I see that reference FXIOS-8672, one of them mentions:
I’ve intentionally kept this PR as simple as possible so we can release it and then be sure there is no major blow back from users. If we need to roll back it should be very simple in the current state.
I’m not sure what would count as “major blow back” but there is at least some hope that this functionality can be restored.
I agree with @garnetred that this behaviour isn’t limited to force closing the app.
LMAO. Imagine thinking this is a bug.
Why do you use private tabs if you keep them open? That defeats the whole purpose.
Private tabs do not grant privacy on the open web I.e your data is still sent to Google
Private tabs tab give you local privacy - only local data history is not stored, downloads not logged, etc.
Edit: and the answer is!!! private mode could be used in place of a profile for different website sign ins. Creative.
They don’t stay open very long, but I certainly am not expecting them to close just because I haven’t used my phone for a couple hours. At any rate, I want to decide when they close.
Wait… private tabs sends info to Google? How? Do you mean by clicking analytics links?
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browsers/incognito-browser/
Incognito mode keeps your browser history private, and that’s pretty much it. If you want more privacy, you’ll need to add Tracking Protection and maybe even browse through a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. Incognito mode can’t.
