Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by Am971 on April 11, 2013 ·

There seems to be incompatibility between "PrivateTabs" and "Instantfox" when used with FF20, Private Tabs are randomly dropping to none private browsing mode when information is entered into the URL bar.

I'm not sure which of the addons is causing the issue, but I can reliably recreate it doing the following :

1. On a brand new profile, install Instantfox & PrivateTabs
2. Open a new private tab (either with the "Open in Private Tab" icon or the keyboard shortcut CTRL ALT P)
3. In the private tab that opens, begin a google search using instantfox (so for example "g firefox" in the location bar)
4. Press Enter
5. The Google search opens as usual, but the tab loses "Private Browsing" mode.

This doesn't happen if I am using a Private Browsing window; only a Private Browsing tab will do this.

Whilst I'm here a couple of requests :D

1. Can you make an icon to close ALL private tabs at one time?
2. Can you make it so pre determined domains ALWAYS open in a private tab?

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.1.0.1-signed). 

by Infocatcher (Developer) on April 11, 2013 ·

Thanks for report, I see this bug.
It's better to fix this inside InstantFox: it uses not private browser for preview feature. And then replace current browser (private) with browser for preview (not private in not private window).
https://github.com/Infocatcher/Private_Tab/issues/26
So, please, report this to InstantFox developers too.

> 1. Can you make an icon to close ALL private tabs at one time?
Oh, I have only code example for now:
https://github.com/Infocatcher/Private_Tab/tree/0.1.0#privatetabistabprivate
So you can use something like https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/custom-buttons/ to use it.
(Be careful, Custom Buttons not yet updated for Firefox 20+, so you should set javascript.options.xml.chrome = true in about:config or use development version: http://custombuttons.mozdev.org/devbuilds.html)

> 2. Can you make it so pre determined domains ALWAYS open in a private tab?
"Determined domains" should be stored somehow. This doesn't looks "private". Or this list should be encrypted...
Anyway, it's not so easy to implement this. And this may be done in other extension: Private Tab should detect third-party tabs in private mode.


[Upd]
Fixed in InstantFox 2.8.2: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/instantfox/versions/2.8.2
(But only for private tabs in not private window: https://github.com/Infocatcher/Private_Tab/issues/26#issuecomment-16570568 – I forgot describe this case in issue...)