And if they don’t update it soon, you might want to reconsider your choice of instance.
The advisory went up about 4h ago. About 3h ago, my instance admin sent out an announcement that the patch had been applied. That was before I even heard about the issue.
Nice work :)
The German government also has a Mastodon instance: https://social.bund.de
E.g. the German federal government (“Bundesregierung”) toots here: https://social.bund.de/@Bundesregierung
Thanks for the clarification- that means it was probably active for a while, but didn’t work for me and I was only hit by it now, because now my browser is supported.
It’s entirely possible, that I enabled that setting a while ago and forgot about it (or maybe accidentally) and never noticed that because of using Firefox.
I know, that the behavior of Firefox is likely not caused by you. I’ll experiment around a bit and try to reproduce it reliably before filing a report there
The changelog says “Support private tabs for FireFox by @dankeast in https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/pull/1216” but OP mentioned Chrome…
Also it’s somewhat broken on Firefox. If you leave the tab open and go to the homescreen, the next time you open Firefox it will start in incognito mode which drove me nuts. Also some pages won’t load properly in Firefox in incognito mode (looking at you, imgur).
While I like the idea, I don’t think it should have been enabled by default with an update, as I cannot remember setting this manually…
In case someone else is searching for this setting, its “use private tabs”
Relevant xkcd