One big relief, as of now it is visible that private browsing will probably make it in Firefox 3.1. This feature already suggested for Firefox 3.0 didn't made it because the lack of time and for Firefox 3.1 it almost happened again. Normally should every new feature already be in the browser before the beta 1 is released. After that only bug fixes are allowed anymore to get a solid and stable version. Luckily private browsing was one of the features that was agreed to come later. Yesterday the first bits of private browsing were checked in. Still you won't see a change on the nightly builds. That's because the changed parts are getting ignored in absence of the Private Browsing service.
So what should be possible with private browsing? The idea is to have a state where the browser doesn't record data and doesn't store anything local on where you have been. So something like surfing off record. History, passwords, cookies, favorites ... will not get saved. The implementation that is chosen for now in Firefox 3.1 is that when you put private browsing on it will never write something to the disk (to update DB containing all the information) and all the rest will happen in the RAM. When going back to your normal state, it will just get everything back from the disk. So the information saved in the RAM are lost, like intended.
To start private browsing you need to go to Tools and just under 'Clear Private Data' you will find 'Private Browsing'. On click you will get a prompt which mode you want. At the moment it is implemented in two modes. Or you can choose that the private browsing mode starts with your current tabs open or you can choose that a new instance need to start. Your current tabs get saved and hided. Whenever you stop with private browsing the browser will restore the tabs you were busy with.
Like I told you it is still not possible to test this feature in the nightly releases, but there are build made where it is available. You can try the builds of the try server, where I can confirm the private browsing is already working.
link to the tryserver
note: this is still considered as non-stable
Monday, October 20, 2008
First impression of private browsing in Firefox 3.1 nightly's
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