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Agreed. Amnesia mode would be a much better name, but I feel if Firefox changed to it some uninformed users might thing Chrome's Incognito mode was somehow safer.
Yeah, naming things is really difficult!
The most truthful thing to call it would be "Temporary Session" but that name requires an understanding of what a 'session' is, in terms of a container that scopes your locally-stored browsing data. It's immediately comprehensible to tech-types, but probably meaningless to the average user.
There's not really any name that can accurately and succinctly describe what Incognito or private browsing actually does in a way that a normal person will understand from the name alone, but Amnesia mode is a good suggestion at one!