Thanks, I didn't know that!
this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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Yeah, I also found out when I was manually testing our product's logged-out UX at work and the 2nd trial started logged in.
Does incognito mode do anything that temporary containers don't? In a world of 2FA key password managers, having to log in every session is super easy—barely an inconvenience.
I'm kind of a dumb guy about computers, but destroying everything every time seemed like a smart call.
They don't allow addons, and probably some other things.
But I honestly would take clearing my session every time. I use a bunch of different services, and having those sessions preserved is really convenient, and 2FA is quite annoying if I had to do 10x logins/session (or more!). I just checked, and I have >20 services in my MFA app, and there are others that are SMS/email/their app only.
So I use private browsing when I know I want my history cleared, I use containers to group things by account, and I use the regular non-containerized session for casual searches and whatnot. I only need to do 2-3x 2FA logins/day, and those are mostly for work stuff (VPN and SSO manager) that expires after 4 hours or whatever.
If you want security use Tor
Tor is for like the EXTREME end of security that may not be required for casual users but Tor has its place in my computer
This might be a better suggestion then: https://mullvad.net/en/browser
Useful even without a VPN.
How is it better than, say, LibreWolf or Waterfox?
It's the Tor browser without Tor, there's a wipe button just for this issue.
I'm asking for like specific features
It's not a replacement for Firefox or it's forks, it's a complement to your main browser. It's like private browsing but always private and always separate from your other browsers and won't save any data locally except maybe bookmarks.
The link I originally posted should explain this but here is a page that explains it in greater detail: https://mullvad.net/en/browser/hard-facts. Some more links:
It is a fork of Firefox and what I'm asking is what advantages it gives over librewolf, which also tries to do the same stuff
Your last link is a 404
Mullvad is a fork of Tor Browser so it gets some features from that like:
Discussion about this https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1