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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. Re:Not About Pornography by chrysalis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Please mod parent up.

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  2. Re:Pivacy, Private, or Porn Mode by howlingmadhowie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    can't see why this reply has been modded offtopic

  3. Sandboxie by dunstan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, having used the free (gratis) nagware version of Sandboxie, I found it useful enough to cough up $20 or something for a non-nagware version. Doing this in the browser is the wrong place, but running your browser in a sandbox you genuinely protect yourself from sites which scribble all over your system (cookies, history, stored passwords, changed bookmarks, dodgy add-ons, ...). You *don't* protect yourself from spyware which scrapes there and then, but you can chuck away and filesystem or registry changes.

    A sandbox also means that you can revert to a previously clean system should you have a time limitted demo which writes some obscure registry key.

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  4. Re:Realism by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Maybe I do it because I want to? >.>
    And yes, I do bring up porn because I enjoy it.

    This will be fun times.
    Finally, can browse nekobooru in peace :D

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