Single Private Tab in new Window

[kainsavage]

When you have a single tab set as a private tab in a secondary window, then close said window, the entry still goes into the "recently closed windows" as if it were NOT a private session.

This may not be the focus of your extension directly. I am the author of a Firefox extension called HistoryBlock and someone pointed me to your extension as a means for handling a lot of my private browsing requirements. Your extension handles them all perfectly (opening a new tab, detecting whether it is blacklisted and toggling private tab if so, etc) except for the new window use case:

User opens a link in a new window Link is blacklisted History is purged and private tab is toggled on User closes said window, but the History -> Recently Closed Windows -> [entry] remains.

[Infocatcher]

Not only with HistoryBlock, the same happens after closing of not private window without not private tabs. Anyway, seems to be fixed for me after changes for #36 and 24f2f6b07611c3275d4c2d1b5c39b9077e76a1ab commit.

[kainsavage]

I pulled the changed from #36 and ran my test again; it is close, but still not quite right. Now, there is an entry in Recently Closed Windows called:

"New Tab (and 1 other tab)."

When I open this window, it shows the new tab, and the same private tab that was closed. This implementation is slightly better than the previous one, but still not 100% correct.

[Infocatcher]

I pulled the changed from #36

Hmmm... only these changes or whole latest development version? Or how can I repeat your tests?

[Infocatcher]

Also be careful: if you make already opened tab private, tab will be loaded with not private cookies. For example, following pattern will fail:

var tab = gBrowser.addTab();
makeTabPrivate(tab);

[kainsavage]

I pulled the latest from this github in readonly and built the plugin myself, so it should be entirely up-to-date.

Test instructions: 1) Open Link in New Window 2) Call 'privateTab.toggleTabPrivate([thatTab], true);' on that page. 3) Close that window 4) History -> Recently Closed Windows -> New Tab (and 1 other tab).

This will open the window from TestInstruction#1 with 2 tabs in it - the private tab and an about:blank tab.

[kainsavage]

Also be careful: if you make already opened tab private, tab will be loaded with not private cookies. For example, following pattern will fail:

var tab = gBrowser.addTab(); makeTabPrivate(tab);

That is very good to know, thank you. It seems that my VERY simple redesign of HistoryBlock will need to be reevaluated as I am simply toggling the private mode on page load (which fulfills the need of keeping it out of the closed tabs, and I blank the history manually, so that's fine, but the cookies and presumably cache will remain). Basically, I need to test a url before a tab is opened to see if it should be private, then open the tab as such... interesting.

[Infocatcher]

Test instructions:

Strange, still can't reproduce. Can you reproduce this bug on new clean Firefox profile with only one Private Tab extension?

I pulled the latest from this github in readonly

Hmmm... to be really sure, here is latest development version: private_tab-0.1.1pre16-fx-sm.xpi from "master" branch (only changed version to 0.1.1pre).