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I'm a bit annoyed by the dark header bar now, they previously only used that for private windows, now it appears they use it for both.

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You can change it to "light" in the prefs :)

Yeah I just tried that and it changes the private window to light as well. I guess it doesn't matter much cause i don't use private much, but it's weird they have removed that distinction now.

In Firefox private mode you will always see a purple icon with a white face mask in the top right corner

If "Firefox will Never remember history" is set in the settings then the icon will not be present.

If you want that kind of distinction, it should be pretty trivial (less than a dozen lines of code) to implement a dynamic theme to that effect. We've got an article in the https://hacks.mozilla.org queue about exactly that -- stay tuned :)

Here's an add-on that does exactly that: https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples/tree/master/pr...

It's not currently packaged and uploaded to addons.mozilla.org, but you can try it by cloning the repo, navigating to `about:debugging,` and clicking "Load Temporary Add-on." Select the `manifest.json` file and you're good to go.

Firefox never made that distinction. What you describe is a Chrome beaviour. I think it'd be better if Mozilla copied it.

You might be right, I swap between the Firefox and Chrome for home and work stuff and maybe I'm getting things mixed up.

Yeah, Firefox on desktop has always just had a badge on private windows, with everything else being the same. I think mobile uses different colors, though.

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