Problem with private browsing?
Posted: 2018-11-28, 17:33
Even from just launching Pale Moon and doing nothing in it, lots of error messages were being generated in my syslog file. They weren't clear enough for me to figure out what was going on except that I noticed the word "private" occurring frequently, including "privateTab". That clue lead me to deactivate the Private Tab add-on. This eliminated most of the errors, but I still get this (where the last two digits vary):
So...
Could it be that there is a bug – or simply a contraindication – in Pale Moon's private browsing that would explain why the Private Tab add-on is having trouble even though it does work as expected?
I'm using PM 28.0.1 64bit on Linux.
Background (for those who don't know "Private Tab"): It allows one to have both private and regular tabs in the same browser window. You can have a shortcut key to open such a private tab (just like Ctrl+T opens a regular tab, I had Alt+P to open a private one) and it also allows you to put the string "private:" in front of a URL in a bookmark, for those sites you want to make sure you'll always open in a private tab.
I had been using it for a decade in an old version of FF on Windows and it worked great, so I would miss it immensely.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-tab/versions/
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WARNING: content window passed to PrivateBrowsingUtils.isWindowPrivate. Use isContentWindowPrivate instead (but only for frame scripts).
pbu_isWindowPrivate@resource://gre/modules/PrivateBrowsingUtils.jsm:25:14
@about:privatebrowsing:40:12
Could it be that there is a bug – or simply a contraindication – in Pale Moon's private browsing that would explain why the Private Tab add-on is having trouble even though it does work as expected?
I'm using PM 28.0.1 64bit on Linux.
Background (for those who don't know "Private Tab"): It allows one to have both private and regular tabs in the same browser window. You can have a shortcut key to open such a private tab (just like Ctrl+T opens a regular tab, I had Alt+P to open a private one) and it also allows you to put the string "private:" in front of a URL in a bookmark, for those sites you want to make sure you'll always open in a private tab.
I had been using it for a decade in an old version of FF on Windows and it worked great, so I would miss it immensely.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-tab/versions/