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Did you know that Firefox, the choice browser of the tech community has a Private Browsing Mode built into
it?
If you are a Firefox user and you are using Firefox version 3.5 or higher you can easily switch from normal
browsing mode to private browsing mode. Many of the other popular browsers also have a private (incognito)
browsing mode that you can explore.
When you are normally browsing the internet, Firefox remembers the web sites you have visited, your user
names and passwords, your browsing history and more. In other words these browsing morsels become a
profile of your browsing habits and of you. When you switch to the Private Browsing Mode in Firefox, these
browsing morsels are not collected and stored on the host computer.
Using Private Browsing Mode, to protect your privacy, is handy when browsing the internet from a friend s
computer or at work. In reverse, you can switch the browser into Private Browsing Mode when someone else
is using your computer to prevent extraction of or review of your personal morsels (such as user names,
passwords, history, cookies, etc).
To get into Private Browsing Mode, go to the menu bar (at the top of the browser), click on Tools, then
Private Browsing Mode [ see video ]. You can also perform the hotkey combo of Ctrl + Shift + P on your
keyboard to turn Private Browsing Mode on or off .

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Personally, I prefer using the hotkey combination to quickly go in and out of Pri ate Bro sing Mode. When
you enter the Pri ate Bro sing Mode, Firefox will graciously remember any pages or tabs that you have open,
so that when you exit from Private Browsing Mode, you are right back where you started.

You can also depart from Pri ate Bro sing Mode by going to the menu bar, click on Tools, then Stop
Private Browsing. You can also leave Pri ate Bro sing Mode by simply closing Firefox, as well.
In a Private Browsing session, Firefox won t keep any browser history, search history, download
history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files. However, files you download and
bookmarks you make will be kept. [ click here to see details ]
You can tell when you are in Pri ate Bro sing Mode by looking at the Title Bar at the top of the browser
window. It will reflect Private Browsing Mozilla Firefox. Downloading files or saving bookmarks is not
affected by Private Browsing Mode.
If you are at another PC, I strongly encourage that you use Firefox and the Firefox Pri ate Bro sing Mode to
protect your privacy. If Firefox is not available on the host PC you can use Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition and
run it from your flash drive.

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1. Private Browsing in Firefox PC Knight says:

October 21, 2009 at 6:00 pm
[...] Hat tip : Incognioto with Firefox [...]
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Nikki Brown says:

October 21, 2009 at 9:32 pm
I did not know about this and I use Firefox all the time. Thank you for sharing.

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Ramblin ick says:

October 21, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Nikki,
Don t feel bad, I did not know it was there until I recently starting exploring Firefox more indepth.
Thank you for commenting and visiting
Rick
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bob says:
October 26, 2009 at 4:57 pm
The portable apps platform is sweet too.. what do you recommend for bootable USB?
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KRISTOPHER DUKES says:

October 31, 2009 at 1:24 am
Great feature to point out. Sometimes I don t like even myself knowing that I just visited The Financial
Times.
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