Browser gives no visual indication that a browser window is private

[kortschak]

Captchas

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• I have searched existing issues and avoided creating duplicates.
• I am not filing an enhancement request.

What happened?

This appears to be a repeat of or related to #4549 which has now been closed, although that issue refers to Windows and macOS while this is on Linux.

When opening a new private browsing window, the private browsing indicator icon is displayed in the centre of the window, however, after a link has been navigated to, no indication is present that indicates the window is in private mode. On FF this would be indicated in the top right on the menu bar.

Reproducible?

• I have checked that this issue cannot be reproduced on Mozilla Firefox.

Version

1.8.2b

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Linux (Flatpak)

Relevant log output if applicable

[lsocrate]

Got same issue on MacOS

[anmolsekhon590]

+1 I can't figure out which one is private window

[zen-browser-auto]

Closing this issue as part of a repo cleanup

Due to technical-debt we had in the past, we are currently clearing out old, duplicate, stale, and non-actionable issues to improve issue tracking and make it easier to focus on fixing real bugs.

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This issue can be reopened at: https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/new?template=bug_report.yml&title=Browser%20gives%20no%20visual%20indication%20that%20a%20browser%20window%20is%20private%0A