Chrome's Incognito Mode is Broken in iOS 7

[Marcus Yam]

The Incognito browsing mode in Google's browser for iOS isn't staying private.

Chrome's Incognito Mode is Broken in iOS 7 : Read more

 

[HallusH]

amazing.. not.
https/support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=en

 

[the1kingbob]

Hahah, too speed things up. HallusH link states at the bottom that, "On Chrome for iOS, due to platform limitation regular and incognito* tabs share HTML5 local storage, which is typically used by sites to store files on your device (client-side caching) or to provide offline functionality. This means the same sites can always access their data in this storage in both regular and incognito* tabs. Incognito* tabs will still keep browsing history and cookies separate from regular tabs, which are cleared once those tabs are closed."

 

[1zacster]

I'm surprised they have "chrome" for ios considering they have to use webkit: safari with a different ui.

 

[the1kingbob]

You can have chrome and use it when you want, but you cannot set it to be your default browser because... choice is bad? You can do a lot of cool stuff with chrome syncing across pretty much every platform that exist (if you are willing to allow it to).

 

[wopr11]

Apple users are cheering about this new amazing feature just discovered - they think it is worth the $648 additional dollars they paid for a $200 dollar phone

 

[kamranki]

Why doesn't this surprise me?