Private flag appears to be non-functioning

[halosghost]

Running the latest release:

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pacman -Qi palemoon                                                                                                                                                                                                                ^_^  
Name           : palemoon
Version        : 24.5.0-2

Attempting to run palemoon with the -private flag has no affect. There is no error output, but the window that opens is not in private browsing mode. Is anyone else experiencing this issue? (This is an x64 Arch Linux system).

Any help or guidance anyone can offer would be much appreciated.

All the best,

-HG

[Night Wing]

Are you referring to private mode? If so, have you read the topic "[Gremlins] No Indications of Being in Private Mode" in the link below.

http://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=4570

If we are are on the same page think wise, I get the private mode in both ubuntu based Mint 16 and debian testing based SolydX.

With no tab open or in a single widow, I get the prompt "Private Mode" in the Title bar. With more than two tabs or windows open, I get the private mask icon to the far left which you can see in the screenshots which I made in that link.

My screenshot, the second one I made, is the correct one and it's on page 2.

[Moonchild]

I've actually checked and verified that -private works for Pale Moon when starting the binary from the command line in CentOS as well.
I'm not sure how your distro has set up the package, but maybe the command-line parameters aren't passed on to the binary?

[Lodestar]

@HG,

I have the same thing on Ubuntu if i just use "-private". The way i do it is using "-private-window", this opens a private session for me.

[halosghost]

@HG,

I have the same thing on Ubuntu if i just use "-private". The way i do it is using "-private-window", this opens a private session for me.

Ah hah! This solves the problem. Using the -private flag simply does not work for me. Having multiple tabs open doesn't help, but -private-window works perfectly. I don't know what the issue is, but this is a fine solution for me

All the best,

-HG