[Bug 1835650] Re: firefox fails to open private sessions from bash

[Olivier Tilloy]

Sorry ts, I had misunderstood the problem you described.

I can confirm that with no previously running instance of firefox,
executing "firefox -private URL" opens the URL but *not* in a private
window. However running the same command without a URL parameter does
open a private window as expected.

If you read
https://developer.mozilla.org/fr/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-private,
you'll see that the documentation doesn't mention a URL parameter for
the "-private" switch, whereas it does for the "-private-window" switch,
so I'd argue this is the expected behaviour (although it would probably
be a good idea to print out a fat warning on the console to warn the
user that the URL is not being opened in a private window).

Or do you mean that "firefox -private" (without a URL parameter) doesn't
open a private window?

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