Rated 3 out of 5 stars

by jsmithson on March 12, 2017 ·

The Private Tab extension used to work well... until I updated Firefox to version 52.0 (64-bit). Now, if I have a bookmark with "private:" prefixed to the URL -- e.g. "private:https://addons.mozilla.org/" -- the bookmark no longer works at all. Are other people seeing this too?

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.2.1.2). 

by Infocatcher (Developer) on March 12, 2017 ·

See https://github.com/Infocatcher/Private_Tab/issues/251
So, Firefox developers decided to fix possible crash in such way... and now we have tricks for "toggle private state" feature and some not implemented/updetad things. :(

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by jsmithson on Nov. 13, 2015 ·

@ -1:

I didn't know about clicking the address icon, but now that I try it... I'm seeing approximately the opposite of what you're reporting. Firefox is telling me that Tracking Protection is working for _all_ pages that have tracking elements (including this one), whether they're private windows, private tabs... or ordinary (not private) windows or tabs!

Maybe there's some about:config settings that affect this? Or might the FF alert be feeding off the anti-tracking filter installed in AdBlock Plus or some other extension? Seems unlikely... Moz said they were adding anti-tracking to private windows, not for _all_windows. I have no idea what's going on here.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.1.8.1). 

by Infocatcher (Developer) on Nov. 19, 2015 ·

Indication doesn't work (and this should be corrected, of course), but looks like tracking protection is also enabled for private tabs (you can check this through built-in developer tools, Network tab).

But all these requests will be (most likely) blocked on all tabs, if already used something like Adblock Plus.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

by jsmithson on Nov. 3, 2015 ·

wongchunwai said: "its really great. would be prefect if private mode trun on automatically by detecting predefined url/domain."

It does. From the (very limited) documentation: "Also you can create private bookmarks to always open some links in private tabs: just append “private:” before URL, example: private:https://addons.mozilla.org/"

Question: In the newest Firefox 42.0, they've added some anti-tracking features to private windows. I assume that works in private tabs too, but I'm not sure. Does anybody know?

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (0.1.8.1).