[mantra2]

Does Firefox still block clipboard history apps from accessing private windows with no way to turn it off? Haven't used Firefox since that change.

[mdaniel]

Friend, do I understand that you're mad that private windows don't allow the system to introspect what content you're viewing in a private window?

BTW, in the spirit of being helpful: if you're using private windows just for 'fresh session' behavior, Firefox offers two other knobs for that outcome: Profiles and Containers. In Chrome I'm with you that Incognito can be a very cheap way to login to a site multiple times, but in FF you have more choices about that problem

[mantra2]

I am, yes. It worked as I described up until I think October of last year.

I’m logging in and out of client accounts - often for services that don’t do delegate access - so private windows work nice for me to make sure that I’m always cleared out of what I was working on before changing to a different project. Often I copy things in private windows that aren’t secrets, it just happens to be how I used the feature.

Containers and Profile are great - but - I’m not trying to have 50+ of them at work, much easier to flip open a private window.

I acknowledge my usecase is unusual and for most I think the feature makes sense - I just want to be able to turn it off, an about:config would be fine.

[mdaniel]

If you haven't seen it, there's also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... (https://github.com/stoically/temporary-containers MIT) when you don't care about the containers but do care that their browsing context is isolated. The screenshot even shows the handy "delete temporary container 15 minutes after the last tab closes")

Actually, sorry, it seems to be https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con... and https://github.com/GodKratos/temporary-containers) based solely on the language present in the add-on and commit history

[TheNewsIsHere]

That’s fantastic, thank you.

I have a very useful plugin that automatically deletes website data (other than history and downloads) after a configured interval once you’ve closed the tab or window. You can define an exception list. I cannot recall its name, I’ll post back when I’m back at my computer.

[mantra2]

Last time I looked into it — last year - the only one I found was Temporary Containers and from what I read the developer unfortunately passed away.

Glad to see someone forked it though, I might give that a try again.

[TheNewsIsHere]

Firefox Profiles are useful, but not nearly as useful as their analogue in other browsers. Same with containers.

I use both, but I try to use profiles very sparingly because you have to relaunch Firefox, which is at times unrealistic.