Mozilla Firefox and Private Browsing- More than What Meets the Eye
The Firefox web browsing software application not just enables the individual to hide his or her web browsing activities in advance but also enables the individual to conceal his or her web browsing history from others without actually entering the private browsing feature. For starters, the fact that you accessed the private browsing feature will be obvious from the fact that all other web browser windows have disappeared. Hence, while people may not know which site you are visiting, they will get to know that you do not want them to find out. This defeats the whole purpose if using the private browsing feature.
That is the reason why the Firefox web browser software application offers a new feature in Firefox 3.5. What you can do is right click on any site that has been stored in the history of your web browser and instruct it to simply forget about the site. Once this is done, the web browsing software application simply forgets that the computer ever visited a particular website. You can surf the web in the normal mode without entering the private browsing mode. Further, it may so happen that the individual simply forgets to activate the private browsing feature. In case of other web browsers, the individual will have no option but to delete stuff manually. If you use Firefox, you can still ensure your web browsing experience remains private even though you may not have instructed the computer beforehand.
What this implies is that you need not painstakingly delete each and every entry made in the history of the computer just because you omitted to activate the private browsing feature before surfing the web site. Of course, the private browsing features are allotted a keyboard shortcut as well. Hence, you do not have to go through a large number of mouse clicks to activate the private browsing feature. In any case, the private browsing feature has been extended to not just before you start surfing the web but also after you surf the web.
One problem that the surfers of the World Wide Web face as far as deletion of web browsing history like cache, cookies, temporary files etc is that the individual had no option but to delete history of the past 24 hours. This was the smallest time limit incorporated in the web browser. If you visited a website an hour ago and want to delete the same, you had no option but to delete the history of the past 24 hours. It was either this or manual deletion of the history of your web browser. The Firefox web browser changed all that by incorporating the ability to delete the history of not just the past day but also the past hour or past two hours. This helps you compartmentalize your work. You may find this feature useful or you may never use this feature. However, what is important is that you have the choice to determine your future course of action. There is no need to follow the rules set by others.
These two extra features are provided in Firefox 3.5 as far as private browsing is concerned. This clearly indicates that the developers of the Firefox web browser have put in a lot of hard work in analyzing the private browsing requirements of the. Of course, the Firefox community also helped the developers by providing valuable feedback. The fact that other web browsers have not setup a mechanism like the Firefox community to get feedback from the surfers is the reason why they were not in a position to provide these additional features as well.
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