{"id":31975,"date":"2021-03-23T14:57:15","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31975"},"modified":"2021-03-24T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T21:02:04","slug":"closing-web-browser-windows-doesnt-close-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/23\/closing-web-browser-windows-doesnt-close-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing Web Browser Windows Doesn&rsquo;t Close Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/closing.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lapcatsoftware\/status\/1372180355822845953\">tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26562543\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/closing.html\"><p>That&rsquo;s too much a coincidence to be a bug, right? Could it be that web browsers are keeping open connections after windows are closed <em>on purpose<\/em>?<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Closing the private window closed the connections associated with the window, in every browser. Thus, it seems pretty clear that this behavior must be intentional.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I feel that many decisions made by web browser developers in the past &mdash; sometimes more than a decade ago &mdash; need to be reevaluated now that browsers are finally starting to care about user privacy. The browser vendors have always loved to compete and brag about whose browser loads pages faster, but the pursuit of speed at all costs can lead to compromises in other areas, such as privacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/22\/firefoxs-new-referrer-policy\/\">Firefox&rsquo;s New Referrer Policy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson (tweet, Hacker News): That&rsquo;s too much a coincidence to be a bug, right? Could it be that web browsers are keeping open connections after windows are closed on purpose?[&#8230;]Closing the private window closed the connections associated with the window, in every browser. Thus, it seems pretty clear that this behavior must be intentional.[&#8230;]I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-03-23T18:57:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"5435a385-b188-495b-a104-0301bc2b134f","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-03-24T21:02:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AVDWjhbGISVuhBAMBvCsTTw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[279,456,30,32,1891,476,355,103,508,96],"class_list":["post-31975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-firefox","tag-googlechrome","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-11-0","tag-networking","tag-privacy","tag-safari","tag-tcp","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31975"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31998,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31975\/revisions\/31998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}