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

By Arun - September 14th, 2008
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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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too late
Submitted by Guest (not verified) on Mon, 15/09/2008 - 12:47am.

Firefox can already do this. It is an add-on called 'stealther'.

Good, I'm Ready
Submitted by Julie (not verified) on Mon, 15/09/2008 - 10:56am.

This has been a long time coming. I have heard so much about Google Chrome and it's comparisson to Firefox...but I have stuck by Firefox and will. I just love this browser.

Firefox has always been
Submitted by Nilesh on Mon, 15/09/2008 - 6:04pm.

Firefox has always been rocking since its release due to its high extensibility and customisation with the base being minimum.

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holly bucket... look at the
Submitted by puneeth on Wed, 17/09/2008 - 5:50pm.

holly bucket... look at the number of reads for this article!! damn iTech7 is getting its hand full!!

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