16:01:17 <therube> "Private browsing ... users who want to start anew need to close all private browsing windows and launch a new one to do so"
16:01:19 <therube> i often wondered if that was "sufficient", or simply opening a new, different Private Window was OK.
16:01:21 <therube> i'm going to have to test the behavior (in SM)
16:01:23 <therube> https://nsaneforums.com/news/security-privacy-news/firefox-is-getting-a-button-to-reset-private-browsing-sessions-r19190/
16:02:55 <frg_Away> therube the most useless feature in a browser. They will track you anyway.
16:03:48 <therube> what's that Private Browsing? i don't use it for "privacy" reasons.
16:04:31 <therube> but if i'm opening a trash site, i'm likely to use Private Window.  or if i'm testing multiple logins to the same entity kind of thing...
16:04:45 <therube> heh.  even the link i posted, i opened in a Private Window ;-)
16:05:20 <frg_Away> If I want to open a trash site I use a vm and the most generic browser possible.
16:08:03 <therube> had the weirdest thing happen yesterday.
16:08:05 <therube> i opened, https://www.costco.com/CatalogSearch?dept=All&keyword=candy, heh - in a Private Window (no less), & got a 'Secure Connection Failed' message (& the site did not load, obviously). 'Try again' also failed.
16:08:07 <therube> opened the same link in a regular window, & it loaded.
16:08:09 <therube> opened a new Profile & the link opened both in regular & Private modes.
16:08:11 <therube> (left browser open)
16:08:13 <therube> today, i hit 'Try again' - in Private Window, & no 'Secure Connection Failed' message & the site loaded.  odd.
16:09:24 <therube> well, to me, Private Browsing is essentially a VM
16:11:52 <nikolam> I have been tryint o use SM2 days ago, and I have seen plenty of sites, not rendering properly, wrong locations of elements on pages, maybe in corellation with old Noscript, even I enabled important scripts..
16:12:08 <nikolam> Any info on maybe SM3 web suite development with the newer Gecko and else.. ?
16:14:16 <therube> hopefully never ;-)
16:17:09 <nikolam> therube, for SM2 it's probably like that..  ;)
18:38:57 <therube> contrary to what was surmised above (at least how i understand it) - at least in FF 115esr, simply closing all "Private Windows" does not then allow you to have a "new set" of Private Windows.
18:38:59 <therube> from what i can tell, an actual browser restart is required.
18:39:00 <therube> as it is, i log in - Private, then close all Private Windows, then open a new Private Window, visit same site, & i'm still logged in.
18:40:22 <therube> so if FF implements such a "clear Private" button, that would be useful, IMO.  (Now, given that it would happen, later, given that FF 118 won't even run [on my end] in Win7, i'll never see that feature.)
18:42:03 <njsg> nikolam_: no, the path forward is to backport at least some of these newer features as needed, as that becomes possible
18:42:29 <njsg> nikolam_: note that while the version is still 2.53.*, it already includes stuff from 60 and beyond
18:43:07 <njsg> I don't mean everything, I mean some things are already in. There might even be things 2.53 has that 2.57 doesn't have.
19:15:06 <therube> looking again, it did seem to "clean up" - without restarting the browser, so at this point, not sure - unless something "leaked"?