GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 723185
from incognito window, you can't create a normal window
Last modified: 2017-02-07 10:43:07 UTC
When you're in Incognito Mode, if you do a Web>New Window, actually it creates a new incognito window. Not sure if this is the intended result as there is also the "New incognito Window" item available in the menu.
Still get it in Rawhide today. This seems to be a pretty bad problem as it would cause user data loss to be fixed. That is to say, one needs to quit all windows and start again to fix it, and because incognito mode is incognito, the user has no way of restoring their incognito tabs/browsing history.
*** Bug 732008 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Heads-up: this patch is going to break in Debian and Ubuntu due to the epiphany-browser rename; your downstream patch will need to be updated. This is going into 3.22.2 as well as master.
The following fix has been pushed: 1bf51d1 "New Window" should never open incognito window
Created attachment 338718 [details] [review] "New Window" should never open incognito window There is already a different menu item to get an incognito window.
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #3) > This is going into 3.22.2 as well as master. Actually, since it's a significant behavior change, I decided not to backport it to 3.22.
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #3) > Heads-up: this patch is going to break in Debian and Ubuntu due to the > epiphany-browser rename; your downstream patch will need to be updated. This > is going into 3.22.2 as well as master. Actually, Debian and Ubuntu's package includes both /usr/bin/epiphany and /usr/bin/epiphany-browser which end up doing the same thing so this did not break Debian or Ubuntu at all. Specifically, /usr/bin/epiphany-browser has these contents: https://sources.debian.net/src/epiphany-browser/unstable/debian/epiphany-browser.sh/ This is possible because epiphany the game is installed as /usr/games/epiphany according to the FHS.