[pavon]

In addition to using private mode for visiting sites that I don't want saved in my history, I also use it as a poor mans sandbox for visiting sensitive sites (like my bank), to avoid potential cross-site-scripting attacks while visiting those sites. For this use-case, saving passwords is very useful. In fact, my biggest complaint with private mode in Firefox is that my preferred password manager plugin (bitwarden) doesn't work in private mode.

[vmarsy]

Why not use Firefox multi account containers[1] for this use case? Having one banking container or even one per bank would have the same effect, without the annoyances of private mode?

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

[pavon]

I tried it out, but it was much more structured than I'd like. I don't really want to have pre-defined a bunch of containers for each site that I want compartmentalized. I really like the ephemeral nature of private browsing where a single click gives me a fresh new container that I can use for whatever I want. Plus, when giving recommendations to family members, private browsing is more user-facing feature, and easier for them to use.

[CaptainMarvel]

As an alternative, there is the “containers on the go” add-on, which will let you easily (optionally) open new tabs in ephemeral containers.

[notdang]

When the plugins stop working in FF, multi account containers stop working as well.

[c0vfefe]

Give the Privacy Badger extension a try.