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 scheme in October.

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

Line amoung Public and Private

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

“There should be a clear line drawn

within your ‘public’ and ‘private’ browsing sessions,” he wrote, so users can’t be tracked when they are doing things they consider private. data on visits can still be explicitly saved, he continued, such as per-site permissions, bookmarks, and so on.

In addition to not recording visited sites and removing all downloads from a given session, privacy mode will additionally mean there is no immediate to save passwords, and password fields cannot be autofilled. “Autocomplete” can […]

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