Firefox 3.1 To Add Private Browsing Mode

[Demon_Skeith]

Firefox 3.1 is looking like it's going to be more of a major release than most of their .0 releases.

Not for the first time, Mozilla has let it out in the Mozilla Wiki that a feature will be added to the next version of Firefox, to wit: a private browsing mode. This is a mode in which writes to cache, history, and other traces of the user's browsing activity are blocked.

A note in the Wiki in a series of updates from the dev team states: "Private Browsing Mode: Ehsan went and implemented Connor's functional spec bug 248970 - way to go! - now back on track for beta date " Bug 248970 began in 2004 with a feature suggestion, noting that Apple's Safari was going to get such a feature and Firefox ought to have one too.

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[Yoshi]

yay, cool

 

[timster0]

Sounds cool.

 

[froggyboy604]

Sounds cool, but I just set my browsers to autodelete my traces when I exit.

 

[Spiritwarrior]

Can't wait for Firefox 3.1 - Private browsing is an excellent feature to use in a shared computer environment.

 

[Yoshi]

private browsing keeps no sessions, saved text inputs(i.e. searhing google for pie)

 

[froggyboy604]

I think it is good to keep the history since sometimes you need the website address, but you forgot what was it. so you look in the history.