... from the Option under Privacy to "Always clear my private data"? Check all the blocks and set it to clear on FF shutdown and it's all gone. Poof!!

Of course I run Crap Cleaner and Eraser every now and then just to be sure dontchaknow.

Not such a bad thing these days - He may well be ineligible for extradition according to some!

Shonky.

Only for us mac users? What about canadien, french or german ones? For years means 3.
You can however manually set Firefox to not accepts cookies, store passwords, save history or cache. For years that is.
Go and whine on some mac forum next time. Why are you reading Firefox articles anyway.

Do you have autism?

If you browsed all your porn in this mode, how would you know the good sites you have been to? They would be lost forever ;( 


Do you ever read the inq... Open Sauce, The Vole, Jesus Phone... all common terms to inq readers

Well at least NOW men can safely visit online profiles of other women seeking sex and be able to get away with it.

I mean there was that one story long ago about how insecure firefox was that the wife found out and divorced the sucker.

Then again it means women can do it to, ah well.

Most definitely a useful piece of software for internet cafe's, laptops (in case they get searched at the border, or stolen) and other places with open access to the internet.

I take it you've very recently discovered The Inquirer?

@Jay: But this is an Open Sauce browser, you'd have to compile your own executable on your friend's PC and use that to be sure she hadn't done just that herself and made the menu item do nothing (or indeed turn on a keylogger or some such)! But then, even if you did compile your own, you'd have to use your own compilers in case she's hacked hers to insert code ... aaaggghhh, is it never ending??

This strikes me as extremely useful for people who use computers besides their own for personal activities (email checking, banking, online shopping).

Imagine checking your email from a friend's house only to have your login information stored... and then your friend's curiosity gets the best of her.

Of course, this assumes that private browsing mode automatically discards all such data in addition to cookies and history data.

The article describes Firefox as Open Sauce.

Did you mean Open Source?!

Private browsing is "Old Hat" for us mac users. Safari has had it for years.