Safari 9.0: Private browsing: Option to share session within private tabs

Originator:dieter.komendera
Number:rdar://22286569 Date Originated:14-Aug-2015 03:45 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Safari Product Version:Safari 9.0 (11601.1.43)
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
Right now when using private browsing mode, each tab has it’s own session and no data (especially cookies) are shared between them. This is different than in Chrome, but I think I see the point for extra privacy. However, sometimes it would be really useful to open a new tab in a private browsing window and share the cookies from the tab I opened the link from via cmd+click.

I always run into that with the developer forums: I’m logged in in one tab, browse the thread history, open all threads I’m interested in with cmd+click in a new tab. Only to see later, that in the opened tab, the forum doesn’t see me as a logged in user.
There are many more uses cases though.

I propose to use shift as an additional modifier: shift+cmd+click on a link in a private tab, and the newly opened tab shares browsing session.

Steps to Reproduce:
* log into https://forums.developer.apple.com/welcome in a private browsing session
* shift + cmd + click a link to a discussion

Expected Results:
* still logged in in the new tab showing the discussion

Actual Results:
* logged out in the new tab

Regression:

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