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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 10 months 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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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s the same with Chrome isn’t it?

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

Yes

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I dont know if it is the same in Chrome or not, it could be

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I can confirm that this is the case with Microsoft Edge (I know, I know, it's required for work), which is Chromium-based, so I would be very surprised if Chrome differs significantly in this.

[–] ziggurism@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

For the record, I don’t think safari works this way. Every incognito window has its own session I believe