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Browser Wars Heat Up as Firefox Adds ‘Privacy Mode’

Posted on | September 15, 2008 |

Keeping in step with rival Web browsers from Microsoft and Google, Mozilla has announced a “privacy mode” for Firefox 3.1. The update is scheduled to be released in beta form in October.

In privacy mode, a browser doesn’t record a history of visited sites or save cookies from those sites.

Line Between Public and Private

On the Mozilla Wiki, developer Mike Connor listed three goals for the privacy mode.

“There should be a clear line drawn between your ‘public’ and ‘private’ browsing sessions,” he wrote, so users can’t be tracked when they are doing things they consider private. Information on visits can still be explicitly saved, he continued, such as per-site permissions, bookmarks, and so on.

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