Privacy from Microsoft
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Well only a few months ago Mozilla - creators of Firefox the rival of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was released to the public after several beta releases.
Now Microsoft launch their little beauty, which boasts a InPrivate mode, the patent for the InPrivate name has been filed in the U.S by the corporation.
The most intriguing tool, and the one that has prompted the “porn mode” label, was dubbed “InPrivate Browsing” by Microsoft.
When enabled, IE8 will not save browsing and searching history, cookies, form data and passwords; it also will automatically clear the browser cache at the end of the session.
Other new tools will include “InPrivate Blocking” and “InPrivate Subscription,” which notifies users of third-party content that can track browsing history and subscribe to lists of sites to block, respectively.
Microsoft will also tweak its existing “Delete Browsing History” by adding an option to preserve bookmarked sites’ cookies even when all others are erased.
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