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Private window broken in active profile on Firefox Nightly

Firefox Browser security
Rastapopoulos1
Rastapopoulos1

I’ve noticed something strange with the active profile in my Firefox Nightly, private browsing doesn’t seem to be working as expected. . Two things made me suspect something’s wrong 

* I wanted to compare a site’s logged-in and logged-out views, so I opened it in a private window. However, it still showed me as logged in
  • This led to a second finding: private windows render identically to normal windows, with no private-browsing indicators.

Tested with a fresh profile: private browsing behaves correctly, which isolates the issue to my active profile. I was wondering if any one has encounter this issue and whether there's a fix for it

I’ve noticed something strange with the active profile in my Firefox Nightly, private browsing doesn’t seem to be working as expected. . Two things made me suspect something’s wrong * I wanted to compare a site’s logged-in and logged-out views, so I opened it in a private window. However, it still showed me as logged in * This led to a second finding: private windows render identically to normal windows, with no private-browsing indicators. Tested with a fresh profile: private browsing behaves correctly, which isolates the issue to my active profile. I was wondering if any one has encounter this issue and whether there's a fix for it

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