IE8 To Include “Porn Mode”

ie8logo_c Although I know this is being echoed all over the internet I couldn’t resist writing about this one. The upcoming release of Internet Explorer 8 (now in Beta 2) has a privacy feature that the internet populous instantly dubbed “porn mode”. This feature is called InPrivate and what it does is that at the end of each session the browser will completely wipe browser/search history, cookies, fliled-in form data, cache, passwords.. everything.

For those interested, Firefox can do the same thing:

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Above: The Privacy panel in FF3. Uncheck all boxes save or “Always clear my private data when I close Firefox”, and from the “Settings” button:

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..check every box here.

But in a tip of the hat to IE8, IE does make it easier than to go thru all this crapola.

I’m sure FF will develop a way as easy to “go private” as IE does soon enough.

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  • Lespaul20

    Apparently the Times and the idiots who coined the phrase hasn’t used FF.

  • Sharron Field

    Why wasn’t this post entitled “I’m in Love With Firefox” or “Anything You Can Do – Firefox Can Do Better”? There was precious little about IE8 in it despite the title.

    I was hoping for a preview of and writeup on IE8: All I found was Firefox worship.

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