[tor-bugs] #10400 [TorBrowserButton]: Provide "New Identity" option that uses session restore

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#10400: Provide "New Identity" option that uses session restore
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 Reporter:  mikeperry         |          Owner:  mikeperry
     Type:  enhancement       |         Status:  new
 Priority:  major             |      Milestone:
Component:  TorBrowserButton  |        Version:
 Keywords:  tbb-usability     |  Actual Points:
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 People routinely request a New Identity option that doesn't close all of
 their tabs. Unfortunately, this is not really possible to implement while
 still clearing all of the tracking-related browser state.

 However, what we can do is store a memory-only instance of the session
 restore data prior to New Identity and then restore it afterwords. This
 might be rather klunky in terms of responsiveness and load delay, but it
 would give people who really don't want to lose their current tabs a way
 to still keep them without quite so much tracking data persisting across
 the "New Identity" invocation.

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