Firefox 20 Will Finally Fix Private Browsing Mode

darthcamaro writes "Unlike every other major browser vendor, Mozilla today does not allow users to have their private mode browser window open at the same time as a regular browser window. That's now set to change. This is a flaw that has been in Bugzilla since 2008 and has been the subject of heated discussion for years."

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But But

[fermion]

Chrome is version 23, so Firefix is still lame, and lord help IE stuck at version 10.

Does this mean I can

[Spy Handler]

post politically correct things (Linux rules and Bush sucks!) to Slashdot while logged in, and at the same time open a Private Browsing window and troll as AC?

Re:Does this mean I can

[Anonymous Coward]

DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS

Multiple Profiles are More Functional

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Firefox has supported multiple simultaneous sessions since at least the 3.x days.

Use these command-line options:

    -ProfileManager -new-instance

Then create as many different profiles as you want. They will all have their own history, bookmarks, add-ons, cookies, etc. The only place you have to worry about cross-profile pollution is with plugins like flash that keep state (like flash-cookies) in their own directory rather than under the firefox profile directory.

I have about 8 different profiles - one for gmail, one for my bank, one for slashdot, one for IMDB, etc and I keep a special "anonymous" profile that is basically a private-mode session, it wipes everything on exit, cookies, disk cache, history, etc. I even use the "User Agent Switcher" add-on so that each profile pretends to be a slightly different version of Firefox to make browser fingerprinting a little bit harder.

Re:How about tabs in the same window?

[chris.alex.thomas]

ok, at least you're honest about it, but holy shit, really, 50 tabs? you really need that much porn open at once.....you must be like a rabid sex monkey 23 hours a day....