# User summary - guessable URL

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-summary-guessable-url/319157>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [July 30, 2024, 3:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-summary-guessable-url/319157 "2024-07-30T03:39:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![tkforbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tkforbes](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tkforbes)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-summary-guessable-url/319157/6 "2024-07-30T10:57:03Z")

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All working fine. Just back here to make a note about my experience and the reason for confusion.

I’m using Firefox and I rely extensively on its container mode where my default behaviour is that each tab is isolated from all others. Because cookies are private in this mode, a newly opened tab - such as happens automatically when I click a link from my Thunderbird email - gives me a fresh environment for browsing. I rely heavily on my password manager to avoid going crazy with logins.

What I did not initially notice when clicking the link that Discourse sent to my email was that the Firefox tab that opened was an exception to the rule I described above i.e. it was not a private tab and it shared the cookies with my most recent Discourse view (probably the youngest tab I was using when I triggered the email notification). So there wasn’t any Discourse magic going on, it is just a behaviour in Firefox Containers that I hadn’t experienced before.

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