Disable indexing in Firefox's private browsing mode

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Disable indexing in Firefox's private browsing mode #291

Closed blackforestboi closed 6 years ago

blackforestboi commented 6 years ago

Unlike on Chrome, in Firefox, extensions are not disabled by default when entering private mode.

Got several people with the problem of needing to do double work on disabling Memex, when they enter private mode. Would be good to get that in soon.

poltak commented 6 years ago

Seems easy to do, but gives us some different options of doing it. We have the choices:

just make the ext not have access to tabs in private browsing (easiest)
allow the ext to separately run in non/private mode (apparently like having two extensions with different data; odd)
or have the extension run in both but have a special flag set so we can write code around it (hardest, but most flexible)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/incognito

blackforestboi commented 6 years ago

ok, then lets go for the easiest version right now, because in case we encounter use cases requiring more effort, we can still reverse that and do it differently.