Firefox private browsing not working full#

When the private browsing mode of Firefox is enabled, the IndexedDB throws an InvalidStateError because it is not available in private browsing mode. This includes Safari, Firefox, IE10, Edge and Google Chrome. It is possible to detect enabled private browsing modes for the majority of used browsers. Google Chrome has developed further and leaves no more space for detection when using incognito mode. If disabling extensions en-masse (private browsing) resolves the issue. Chrome and Firefox, in particular, expose internal API's which allow plugins to check if the user is in private browsing/incognito mode and action accordingly. Extensions and Add-ons can also cause issues while rendering pages in Salesforce. If it is required internally by a company, you should develop a browser plugin. Other means of detecting private mode in Chrome specifically have been completely patched and will no longer work. If you are testing for localStorage support regardless of mode, it will always return true for browsers that support it. Once you're finished browsing, the namespace is erased and nothing is saved. They simply namespace it in a temporary location to prevent websites that use it from erroring out. People are choosing to browse anonymously and or not anonymously for their own reasons.Д«rowsers like Chrome and Firefox do not disable functionality like localStorage any more. There should never be a situation where needing to detect private browsing mode on a normal day-to-day website is ever needed. Previous solutions that once worked like the CSS history hack have since been rendered unusable by all browser vendors.

I am not sure what Firefox is doing that lets WaPo accurately determine that I am in Private Mode. If clearing your cookies and cache did not enable you to load the websites that did not work in Firefox, you should check your computer for malware. This only happens in Firefox with Private Browsing and not in Chromes incognito.

Firefox private browsing not working full#

When browsing in Firefox private mode, it does not keep your browsing history, search history. When opening Washington post in private browsing I get an overlay preventing full access to the article. To anyone else coming across this question, please note as of 2014, there is no reliable or accurate way to detect if someone is browsing in an incognito/private/safe browsing mode through Javascript or CSS. A new private window is opened with content blocking enabled. The ability to detect private browsing mode has been acknowledged as a bug and was never intended. So, if you're wanting to detect private browsing it's now impossible (unless you find a way to do it that Google hasn't found).

Google is removing the ability to detect Private Browsing Mode permanently in Chrome 76 onwards.