Private Browsing, also know as the porn surfing mode, is a special mode of the Firefox web browser that prevents the recording of history while the mode is active. You sometimes may want to visit websites without leaving traces on the computer system. This can be useful on public computers, e.g. in an Internet Cafe, [...]

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I’m not using private browsing modes that web browsers like Firefox, Opera, Google Chrome and even Internet Explorer offer. The core reason is that I’m the only user on the PC so that it is not necessary to protect my privacy using private browsing sessions. Plus, I delete my browsing data at the end of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Incognito Mode is the name of the private browsing option in the Google Chrome browser. Once Incognito Mode is activated it blocks the storage of session related data on the computer’s hard drive. This includes cache files, history entries, searches or cookies. Incognito Mode spawns a new window every time it is activated. Activation is [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Private browsing, a relative new feature that allows users to hide their web activities. The modes basically block storage of browsing session data in the browser or the computer’s hard drive. This for instance means that no data is written to the cache or the cookie storage. Users naturally feel safer using that mode, but [...]

Categories: Security, Tutorials Basic, Windows

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

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 [...]

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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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

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 [...]

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