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Firefox 20 Will Finally Fix Private Browsing Mode
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."
I would totally mess that up. Open porn in the wrong tab and forget to clear cache because I'm used to not having to do so.
It doesn't help that I have 50 tabs open at one time, usually in the same window.
That's how it works in opera: anonymous tabs not windows (but you can put the tab in a separate window if you want to).
As a web developper, I often use this to have several sessions with different users on the same website.
Chrome is version 23, so Firefix is still lame, and lord help IE stuck at version 10.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
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
post politically correct things (Linux rules and Bush sucks!) to Slashdot while logged in, and at the same time open a Private Browsing window and troll as AC?
Firefox has supported multiple simultaneous sessions since at least the 3.x days.
Use these command-line options:
-ProfileManager -new-instance
Then create as many different profiles as you want. They will all have their own history, bookmarks, add-ons, cookies, etc. The only place you have to worry about cross-profile pollution is with plugins like flash that keep state (like flash-cookies) in their own directory rather than under the firefox profile directory.
I have about 8 different profiles - one for gmail, one for my bank, one for slashdot, one for IMDB, etc and I keep a special "anonymous" profile that is basically a private-mode session, it wipes everything on exit, cookies, disk cache, history, etc. I even use the "User Agent Switcher" add-on so that each profile pretends to be a slightly different version of Firefox to make browser fingerprinting a little bit harder.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Reminds me how I've wished for a new http "undo" feature.
Basically, if I make a request of a page from a server and decide it was a mistake, I want to invoke "undo" and have my browser history go back, wipe any cookies or history or cache trace, plus delete anything downloaded... AND THEN ALSO send an "undo" header to Apache to request wiping my visit from the logs.
Of course that would be open to abuse. So servers should only honor such "undo" requests if they happen within X seconds (say, 120) after the last non-ajax bit was sent to the browser, and as long as no further requests are made by the browser after the first one. For example, click a link on the page, interact with a form widget, or invoke a new ajax request... and you'd totally kill the ability to "undo".
Asking people to think is like asking them to buy you a new car
ok, at least you're honest about it, but holy shit, really, 50 tabs? you really need that much porn open at once.....you must be like a rabid sex monkey 23 hours a day....
For firefox this is actually pretty good. My personal favorite bug is still plaguing users of FF over 11 years after being reported.
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Friends don't let friends enable ecmascript.
Well some of us do more with a computer than check up on the latest kardashian kraze and failbook. While we have browser preferences, we tend to choose the one that has the plugins we need, even if it is technically inferior software.
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.