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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 868130
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Closed: Jul 30
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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External links always opened in regular window instead of Incognito, even if the latter is the active window.

Reported by robert.k...@gmail.com, Jul 28

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/68.0.3440.75 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open an Incognito window and keep it active ("on top")
2. Run `open https://google.com` from Terminal
3. Link to Google is opened in a regular (non-Incognito) window

What is the expected behavior?
If an Incognito window is the active window, links opened from external programs should open in that window.

What went wrong?
External links were previously (pre-68) opened in the active window. When I read mail or RSS feeds, I always have an Incognito window as the active window so links are opened in it.

This doesn't work anymore. Even if there are no regular (non-Incognito) windows open, Chrome will open the link in one. To me, this is a security regression.

Did this work before? Yes 67

Chrome version: 68.0.3440.75  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.13.6
Flash Version:
 
Components: Privacy>Incognito
Labels: -Type-Bug-Security -Restrict-View-SecurityTeam Type-Bug
This isn't something that we'd usually consider a security vulnerability, but I'm unsure if this behavior is intended. Flipping some labels around so that more developers can take a look.
Labels: Needs-Triage-M68 Needs-Bisect
Cc: viswa.karala@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Bisect Triaged-ET
Mergedinto: 868130
Status: Duplicate (was: Unconfirmed)
Thanks for filing the issue!

This issue seems to be similar to Issue:  868130 , hence merging into it and marking it as Duplicate.
Note: Feel free to Un-Dupe it if not the case.

Thanks!

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