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Firefox 20 Will Finally Fix Private Browsing Mode

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-know-what-you-use-it-for dept.

darthcamaro writes "Unlike every other major browser vendor, Mozilla today does not allow users to have their private mode browser window open at the same time as a regular browser window. That's now set to change. This is a flaw that has been in Bugzilla since 2008 and has been the subject of heated discussion for years."

4 of 186 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Finally! by Lennie · · Score: 3, Informative

    2013-04-02 to precise.

    But you can probably download the daily build right now, the pre-Beta/Aurora in the week of 2013-01-06 or the beta on 2013-02-19.

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar

    --
    New things are always on the horizon
  2. Re:How about tabs in the same window? by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is how Opera has done it from the beginning... I'm really surprised the others haven't at least made it a non-default option yet

  3. Tor for the highly privacy seeking or the paranoid by girlinatrainingbra · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dude, at that level of paranoia, go ahead and install Tor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(anonymity_network)) and use the version of Firefox it comes with to route your requests through the onion router.

  4. Re:Multiple Profiles are More Functional by girlinatrainingbra · · Score: 4, Informative

    Look at EFF's Panopticlick website to see the breadcrumbs you're leaving behind. And don't forget that if you're coming in from the same IP address, even with all of those different purported browser-agent strings, it's easy enough to collect those data together and make a profile for that IP address and for the various sites hit at the various times of day. If you've got certain niche websites which you visit, the combination of websites visited could also be seen as a fingerprint also.
    ;>)
    https://panopticlick.eff.org/