Cnet’s Seth Rosenblatt today published a story about privacy risks in private browsing modes of modern web browsers. He summarized the findings of a soon-to-be published report of researchers at Stanford University’s Computer Science Security Lab. The researchers analyzed the private browsing modes of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Apple Safari. First [...]
Automatically Enable Incognito Mode For Specific Websites In Google Chrome
Google Chrome‘s Incognito Mode is a private browsing mode, in which the recording of information about the web browsing session is blocked. No records are stored in the web browser or on the computer system. That’s helpful to improve the privacy of a web session, or to avoid problems when using public or third party [...]
Google Chrome Incognito Switcher
The Google Chrome Incognito mode is a private browsing mode in which the web browser does not record information about the browsing session. This means that it is not possible to find information of that session in the browser history, cache or cookies. The incognito mode can be started by pressing Ctrl-Shift-N or by selecting [...]
Google Chrome To Allow Extensions In Incognito Mode
The Google browser is getting many feature updates in the last few days. We already reviewed the new autofill and taskbar thumbnail feature that has been added to the latest developer releases of the Google Chrome browser. The latest versions of Chromium, the Open Source core of Google Chrome, outline another interesting feature that will [...]
Improve Firefox Private Browsing With Private Browsing Window Add-on
The Mozilla developers have added private browsing to the Firefox web browser since version 3.5. This basically allows a Firefox users to switch to a mode where no records of the web browsing session will be stored on the computer system. The way it is implemented is different from the incognito mode in the Google [...]
Flash Player 10.1 To Support Private Browsing
Private browsing is a relative new mode that has been added to several popular web browsers recently. It basically allows a user to work with the web browser normally. Data that is accumulated during the private browsing sessions is only temporarily available which is the difference to the normal browsing mode. This means that the [...]
Autostart Firefox In Private Browsing Mode
Private browsing mode is a new option that all popular web browsers are offering by now (the latest to add this mode was the Opera web browser that had the mode implemented in the recently released Opera 10.50 pre-alpha release. Once turned on private browsing mode ensures that data that is generated during that browsing [...]
Private Browsing Not So Private After All
The last year or so has been filled with announcements about private browsing. Each web browser developer implemented or announced plans to add private browsing to their web browser. Private browsing usually means to offer a sandboxed browsing session in computer memory with no information written and stored on the computer’s hard drive. Privacy is [...]
First Look At Firefox’s Private Browsing Mode
The latest nightly build of Firefox 3.1 included a first version of the long awaited private browsing feature. Private Browsing is basically browsing the Internet in a sandbox that does not write any data of that session on the computer’s hard drive. Unlike Google Chrome‘s Incognito Mode Firefox will close all tabs that have been [...]