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    Private Mode for Firefox 3.1

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by McGrady, Sep 11, 2008.

  1. McGrady

    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    Following Chrome’s release, Mozilla has felt the pressure of the competition and put private mode back in Firefox 3.1’s feature list in second level priority, and on track for Beta 1, the next development release (around mid-October).

    In private mode, all user activity involving data such as searches, visited web pages, downloads, cached pages, credentials passed to restricted sites, etc. is discarded once the user returns to normal mode. Despite being infamously well known as “porn mode” there are many other valid use cases....

    Read More Here: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/09/private-mode-back-in-firefox-31-plans/
     
    McGrady, Sep 11, 2008
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  2. Hiker

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    Can't you remove all that info at a click of the mouse or by closing FF anyway?
     
    Hiker, Sep 11, 2008
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  3. McGrady

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    But its in the History.
     
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    I suppose it's good after online banking, **** viewing! etc. if you don't want to clear all your history etc. But it's looks you can clear what you want anytime.
     

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  5. McGrady

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    Yeah, but sometimes you don't want to erase your entire browsing history, maybe just a select few.
     
    McGrady, Sep 12, 2008
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    I just have 2 profiles in firefox. One is hidden

    Genius.
     
    flipfire, Sep 12, 2008
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