Mozilla introduced a new flame icon to the private browsing window in the recently released Firefox Nightly version. Users can reset the current private browsing session after clicking it.
Note: Private Browsing is a useful feature of Firefox that can help you hide your network activities on your computer from other Firefox users, but it does not make you invisible online.
Firefox doesn’t save passwords, cookies, and history when you use a private window. If you download a file from a website, the file won’t appear in Firefox’s Download Manager, but it will still remain on your computer. Additionally, if you bookmark a website in a privacy window, it will remain in your bookmarks list.
Firefox users previously had to reset their session by closing the current window and then reopening it, but users can do the same thing after clicking this button.
There is also an option to uncheck “Always ask me” and activating the button will immediately reset the unchecked options, speeding up the reset.
It’s unclear when this feature will land on the stable version of Firefox. The current Nightly version number is 120, and the 120 stable version is planned to be released in late November 2023.
The preference browser.privatebrowsing.resetPBM.enabled defines whether this button appears in the Firefox toolbar, setting it to TRUE will display the icon, and setting it to FALSE will remove it.
