Loading a chrome:// url while in incognito instead opens it in a normal browsing window, even if none were open before
Reported by
andyp...@my.yorku.ca,
Jul 11 2017
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Issue descriptionUserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Open a browser window in incognito mode, and close any non-incognito mode windows. 2. Navigate to chrome://history via the address bar. 3. The history interface opens itself in a new window outside of incognito. What is the expected behavior? This is unexpected because anything that happens in incognito should stay in incognito. What went wrong? Instead, since everything else opens in incognito mode, it should follow that opening a chrome://history tab while in incognito mode, will open it in an adjacent incognito tab (vs. launching it outside of incognito mode). This also disrupts the flow of using the "Continue where I left off" setting for closing the browser. Sometimes, if I start up the computer to do something quick without loading multiple tabs related to what I was doing the previous day, I open an incognito mode. The way it is now, I can't change a setting or view history without launching the browser outside of incognito mode and have to load all my previous tabs. Did this work before? N/A Chrome version: 59.0.3071.115 Channel: stable OS Version: 6.3 Flash Version: Not installed
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Jul 12 2017
Considering the above issues as feature and marking it as untriaged for more updates.
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Jul 14 2017
#c1 is correct, Incognito Mode does not save your history. See the Google Chrome Privacy Whitepaper for further details: https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/privacy/whitepaper.html#incognito Hence it does not make sense to surface the browsing history in incognito mode. Also note that the "History" menu entry is missing in incognito mode for the same reason. Given that other chrome:// URLs load fine in incognito mode (e.g. chrome://version/ or chrome://flags/), this is working as intended and I'm closing this as WontFix.
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Jul 26 2017
I don't think it's misleading to be able to access the history from incognito, because it's a given that nothing is logged in incognito. Thus it should follow that you're accessing the logged (non-incognito) history. Sort of like how changing settings while incognito should apply it for the entire browser (and not just affecting browsing while incognito). Something I forgot to mention in the original report, was that opening chrome://settings from an incognito window opens it in normal browsing instead. There is a menu entry for the settings in incognito mode as well, and clicking it reopens tabs from your previous session outside of incognito. Clicking on Help -> About Google Chrome, or accessing chrome://extensions while incognito does the same thing. Are these intended too? |
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Comment 1 by woxxom@gmail.com
, Jul 11 2017