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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Feb 2018
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OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Incognito tabs sometimes become normal tabs if many tabs are open

Reported by anowlcal...@gmail.com, Dec 23 2017

Issue description

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Have many tabs open (100+)
2. Open some incognito tabs
3. Use other apps for a while (i.e. probably encounter some situations where Android starts killing background apps to free up memory)
4. Go back to Chrome and see that your incognito tabs have become normal tabs

What is the expected behavior?
Tabs opened in incognito should stay in incognito; if Chrome has to exit due to memory pressure, the tabs should be closed in preference to making them normal tabs (otherwise the point of incognito mode is lost, if pages I leave open in incognito can randomly make their way into my history).

What went wrong?
Sometimes, tabs opened in incognito mode will somehow become normal-mode tabs.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 63.0.3239.111  Channel: stable
OS Version: 8.1.0
Flash Version:
 

Comment 1 Deleted

Labels: Needs-triage-Mobile
Cc: pnangunoori@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Feedback Triaged-Mobile
Tested on Pixel 2 Android 8.1 on Chrome Stable #63.0.3239.111 and not able to reproduce the issue.

anowlcalledjosh@ -- Could you please provide the device details where this issue is reproduced and could you please provide the screencast reproducing the issue. This would help us in further triaging the issue.

Thanks in advance!
This is happening on a Nexus 5X running Android 8.1.0.

Afraid there's no way I could record a screencast -- it happens very rarely and at random, I don't know how to reproduce it. Sorry!
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Comment 5 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Dec 28 2017

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "pnangunoori@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
Cc: msramek@chromium.org
Labels: privacy
Components: UI>Browser>Incognito
Labels: Needs-Feedback
anowlcalledjosh@ -- If possible could you please share logs for the issue reported, as it is not reproduced at our end.

Thanks!
Will do if it happens again (is an Android bugreport ok?).
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Comment 9 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Jan 4 2018

Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "pnangunoori@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
anowlcalledjosh@ -- Yeah that would be fine.

Thanks!
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Closing this issue as there is no reply from reporter.

anowlcalledjosh@ -- Please feel free to file a new issue if the issue is observed on the latest Chrome #64.0.3282.137.

Thanks in advance!

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