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brixter
Making moves
Status: New idea

In my personal and work use, I have never intentionally used private tabs. My browsing history is important to me, as well as the convenience of logging in with passwords. The only reason I've used private tabs is when I accidentally click "Open link in private tab".

This sometimes creates confusion because I couldn't find the link I opened among the regular tabs and then I find out that I accidentally opened the link in a private tab. It's easier to avoid this mistake in Firefox desktop because the mouse pointer is more precise. In mobile devices however, I've frequently opened a private tab accidentally because the buttons where I press my finger are much larger.

Please add a setting in Firefox Android where the privacy mode is completely disabled. I don't want to care about which tab I opened because I only want to use regular tabs. Sort of like a reverse Firefox Focus.

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Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
Community Manager

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HyeroDrimm
New member

I would welcome this feature, it would help me and many others overcome porn addiction. It would be another step I have to go through to get to porn. From what I looked, no popular browser has this feature, so Firefox could be first.

Also, I see there is interest for this type of feature:
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/lryip5/disabling_private_browsing_on_android/
https://support.mozilla.org/kn/questions/1356972

T-Smith
New member

I agree completely. In years past (retired now) used to call into mozilla firefox and complain when the new updates would totally screw with the normal work routine of my job. Sorry about that to the poor guy I would be talking to on the phone. Please put in a disable feature for this.