Tags: erasing history, internet, online tracks, privacy, private browsing
Apple calls it “Private Browsing.” Microsoft calls it “InPrivate.” Google’s new Chrome browser calls it “Incognito.” And yes, practically everyone else calls it “Porn Mode.”
Chrome’s launch on Tuesday confirmed a new feature as a must-have in Web-browsing software: a cloak of invisibility that hides the user’s path around the Web. Incognito browsing, like a similar setting in a new version of Internet Explorer released last week, is designed to erase any trace of the sites you’ve recently visited, wiping away cached pages and browsing history from your hard drive and turning off the browser’s autocomplete function, which can reveal what you’ve recently typed into text boxes.
That private mode can be used for hiding indiscretions in the Web’s red-light district, or, as Google innocently suggests, for planning “surprises like gifts or birthdays.”
Read the complete article at Forbes.com (Technology)
September 8th, 2008 at 4:32 am
I didnt know this…..could be useful
September 9th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Hi, thanks for sharing this topic, great one!:D
September 14th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
very interesting and informative blog over here!! thanks for sharing
September 16th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
FireFox also has the ‘clear private data’ option under tools. I use it all the time. Not only can you set it to initiate when you close the browser, but you can initiate it any time while still browsing.
September 17th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Incognito, I like it.
I can think of a few uses for this.