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Friday, September 11, 2009

Firefox Shiretoko

Firefox 3.5, code-named Shiretoko, has a brand new feature called private browsing. Its very useful if you share the laptop with some visitors every now and then, but not often enough for them to have a Firefox profile.

This feature, as some might think, is not proxy-browsing which hides and translates your IP into something else. Its also not really a setting which deletes all your history, cache and cookies when you close the browser. Its some of it and a little more. With Shiretoko, you can privately browse while keeping your old tabs intact. So if your friend drops by and wants to check his mail on your laptop, you just give him private browsing, without actually logging out of your mail and other accounts, while he gets a clean browser and leaves it clean too. Shiretoko continues just where you left off when he's done browsing privately!

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