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How do I open a Private Browsing session in a new window?

lazlo15
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I have looked over the web for a bit and all links are to a dead extension for Firefox. This leads me to believe Mozilla probably put a feature in the latest browser to allow for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

TLDR; Looking for a carbon copy of Chrome's "Incognito Mode." (Please don't give me a snarky "herp derp then download chrome" response!)

I have looked over the web for a bit and all links are to a dead extension for Firefox. This leads me to believe Mozilla probably put a feature in the latest browser to allow for this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TLDR; Looking for a carbon copy of Chrome's "Incognito Mode." (Please don't give me a snarky "herp derp then download chrome" response!)

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David McRitchie
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With Chrome each tab runs separately so some tabs can be Private Browsing while other are not (I expect).

With Firefox when you go into Private browsing you leave your session behind and everything in Private Browsing stayus with that session and ends when the Private session ends. When the Private session ends you pick up where you left off your non private session tabs and all.

In a Private session, you cannot create bookmarks, cookies last only for the session.

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