Monday, September 15, 2008

Firefox 3.1 plans to have a private browsing mode like InPrivate and Incognito

Private mode is probably the top most missed feature from FireFox. Yes there are addons that do this, but since IE8 will have one, Chrome has one and Safari users benefit from this for some time as well it was time Mozilla guys created a similar function for FF.

Mozilla has announced that Firefox 3.1 will include a option for private browsing. As other major browsers have recently rolled out such features, for example "Incognito mode" in Google Chrome and "InPrivate" (a.k.a. Porn Mode) in IE beta 8, firefox users will have to wait for sometime . Enabling this mode will make sure that

  • all cookies are discarded
  • browser histories are not recorded
  • autofill passwords and prompt to save passwords are disabled
  • clear download history in the download manager
Incognito in chrome

incognito

This makes users feel secure when they want to surf "private" websites as no trace will be behind such a browsing session.To know more about this visit this page in Mozilla Wiki

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