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Et Tu, Mozilla? Firefox 3 To Get Privacy Mode

Posted by timothy on from the nothing-wrong-with-some-occasional-flattery dept.

CWmike writes "Mozilla will respond to Google's Chrome and Microsoft's IE8 with its own private-browsing, or 'porn' mode in Firefox, according to notes posted on its Web site, and is on track to deliver one in 3.1, the version that will likely go beta next month."

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  1. And Responding to Safari... by overeduc8ed · · Score: 5, Informative

    Safari has had a private/pr0n browsing mode for 3+ years...

  2. Re:Mind your French by kshade · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dude, Latin, not French.

  3. Subtle difference in Granularity by DrYak · · Score: 5, Informative

    All of those things can be set on the Privacy tab, in Options. Am I wrong?

    The subtle difference is that since the old NetScape days, the pivacy can only controlled for the whole browser :
    You either scrap your whole history or you keep it.

    In Chrome, Safari and starting from version 3.1 of FireFox :
    one tab could be in private mode (for example not saving any cookie nor cache) while the next tab could be a normal tab with your usual web AJAX application running.

    Although I fail to realise who could simultaneously need to be able to fap at some p0rn in one tab while writting TPS reports at the very same time in the next tab.
    That's multitasking taken to some really weird proportion.

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