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The search bar from about:privatebrowsing is unclickable and the google icon is missing. I create a new profile from the profile manager and start it up. Using the latest Nightly (20191106215426) I've added "-private" command to the shortcut from my desktop. I think the icon is on file separately and unrelated to this problem.
#Firefox private browsing not working windows 10#
The issue is still reproducible when using a new profile on Windows 7 / Windows 10 using Firefox Nightly 72.0a1 (20191106095742)Ĭan you provide some more detail on what you're doing, exactly, and what results you're seeing? FWIW, I consistently see the google icon not showing up in either about:privatebrowsing or about:newtab until I hover over the page and/or search box, but otherwise everything now works. (In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #17) Oops, submitted my previous comment without finishing my question. (In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #18) The Search box in the middle of the purple page of "Private browsing" should work all the times, not only when Firefox is "ALREADY" running and a new Private browsing window or tab is opened. The Search box in the middle of the purple page of "Private browsing" will not load the (default) search engine if Firefox is opened when NO other instances of the browser are running: that search box will be inusable. Please note that if even a single instance of Firefox is ALREADY running, the problem described above will never occur. If I refresh the page (the purple starting page of Private browsing), its search box will immediately start working properly, displaying the Google logo and becoming clickable (in order to place the mouse cursor inside and start writing the needed search term). This problem is related only to that search box: no problem searching (Googling) the web using Firefox's Address bar or any other search method available in Firefox itself. My Firefox default search engine is Google.
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ISSUE: The search box in the middle of the purple "Private browsing" starting page will not be clickable and no (default) search engine loaded in it (no Google icon in it: it will be blank). It is also quite similar to Firefox in terms of working as it is as responsive and stable as the Firefox browser. In this browser, you can find almost all the features of the Firefox browser like Sync, Private Window, Add-ons support, Read Mode, Customize, Bookmarks, etc.
#Firefox private browsing not working free#
Infact, the following problem will NOT occur if I click on the private browsing icon located "inside" Firefox, I mean the one in the sandwich menu at the top-right of an already-opened window of Firefox. Waterfox is yet another free open source Firefox based browser for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Click on a Private browsing "external" icon of Firefox (eg: the icon located in the Firefox jumplist in the Windows Seven task bar) in order to DIRECTLY open a single "private browsing" window. The following problem will occur about 7-8 times out of 10: