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"Note: Not all extensions can be allowed in Private Windows." okay, BUT WHY?

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Bryan Joshua Pedini
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I know it may sound a bit strange, but I would like to know WHY an extension is not allowed in a private window, so I might understand the reason why I'm not able to diagnose an issue I'm having with fucking amazon who has their cart all over the place for a misconfiguration in firefox that either I did or an extension is causing, however I'm unable to figure out which because I can't enable extensions in private windows, where the issue does not happen, so I'm not able to reproduce and isolate the problem. Specifically, this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-browsing Plus, I was kinda expecting I could run STG in private too, since it offer such nice and rich grouping and memory management features vanilla FF does not (PS: please take inspiration and bake it inside!!) Thanks in advance.

I know it may sound a bit strange, but I would like to know '''WHY''' an extension is not allowed in a private window, so I might understand the reason why I'm not able to diagnose an issue I'm having with fucking amazon who has their cart all over the place for a misconfiguration in firefox that either I did or an extension is causing, however I'm unable to figure out which because I can't enable extensions in private windows, where the issue does not happen, so I'm not able to reproduce and isolate the problem. Specifically, this article: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/extensions-private-browsing Plus, I was kinda expecting I could run STG in private too, since it offer such nice and rich grouping and memory management features vanilla FF does not (PS: please take inspiration and bake it inside!!) Thanks in advance.
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That is usually the case when an extension uses containers because containers aren't compatible with PB mode.

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cor-el
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That is usually the case when an extension uses containers because containers aren't compatible with PB mode.

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Bryan Joshua Pedini
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Okay, didn't know that, thanks for the info. So wait, can I enable specific extensions or not inside a specific container? Like, I would like this container to have extensions A, B and C and this other only B, C and D or something? Thanks.

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No, an extension works in all containers. Containers partition website data like cookies and a webpage opened in one container can't access data from other containers, even if this same website is open in multiple containers.

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