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Be careful, your understanding of incognito mode in Firefox may be wrong and that could be costing you (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de to c/firefox@lemmy.ml
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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

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[-] sock@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

why would you expect each tab connected to the same window to each have a different cache or whatever as if it wasnt connected to the same window.

it seems counterintuitive to expect that.

unless yall mean opening up multiple windows then i ask what r u using incognito for so much. nobody cares about you or your data in any significant way thatll affect you.

[-] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 2 years ago

No not tabs sharing data but windows sharing data is unintuitive

[-] NickNak@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

There's an add on that lets you create custom containers, a container acts as it's own session in a way, content, cache, cookies etc are all localised to one container

For example, you open youtube in one then open gmail in another container, neither one will know you're logged into the other

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