Private browsing in Firefox 2, Opera 9, IE 7 & Safari 3 browsers: Surf websites anonymously without leaving behind any trace of history, cache, cookies, autocomplete & forms
In this world of data and identity theft, it is important that your browsing/surfing activity on a public computer is not left behind. I have listed below one option each for the most commonly available web browsers that prevent and/or clean up private data after each browing session.
1) Firefox 2
Stealther is a free addon for Mozilla Firefox that allows you to browse websites without leaving any trace on the computer. It does this by temporarily disabling the following features in the browser:
- Browsing History (also in Address bar)
- Cookies
- Downloaded Files History
- Disk Cache
- Saved Form Information
- Sending of Referrer Header
- Recently Closed Tabs list
Download Stealther here.
2) Internet Explorer 7
Browzar is a free addon that runs over Internet Explorer engine and prevents history, cache, auto-complete and cookies from being saved to the disk.
Download Browzar here
3) Apple Safari 3.x
Apple’s Safari for Windows features in-built support for private browing which can be enabled from under Safari–>Private Browsing
Download Apple Safari here
4) Opera 9
Unfortunately, for Opera 9, there is no add-on/extension or feature available that would prevent private information from being written to the disk. You can either choose to delete the entire private data or set block cookies,graphics & content on a per-site basis.
Continue reading here: Automatically Synchronize Bookmarks & Favorites between IE, Firefox, Opera & Safari on Windows/Mac/Linux
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