Features of private browsers
November 6th, 2008
Private browsers are aim to enhance the user experience of browsing. It has the following common features.
- The URL’s visited would not be recorded in the browsers history.
- Cookies would not be saved during the private sessions and all cookies would be treated as session cookies.
- All other evidences would be cleaned from the computer at the end of the session.
- It will also remove all downloads that would be done by the download manager in Firefox during this session.
- The browser will not prompt you for saving passwords in this mode when you enter your passwords for the first time also.
- Passwords will also not autofill during this session.
- Though Autocomplete will be available it would not record or remember any data.
- It will not prevent users from explicitly adding exceptions via preferences or page info.