Private Browsing Mode is a new feature in Firefox available in Firefox 3.5 beta or later versions. Note that this feature is not available in earlier versions of Firefox. You can check out What’s New in Firefox 3.5.

Private Browsing is a  feature which can be turned On or Off by the user as per his requirement. There might be situations where a user would not like to store his online data on the computer and would remove any trace of it. In earlier versions of Firefox, we had an option called Clear Private Data. It used to clear all the data which is stored on the computer. There were quite a few disadvantages as it would delete all the existing cookies.

Turn On Private Browsing

Now with the new Private Browsing Mode, we can Turn On the mode whenever we start our private browsing.

Click on Tools Menu and select Start Private Browsing. Alternatively you can click Ctrl+Shift+P.

It will now inform you that it would save and close all your existing tabs and windows and start your Private Browsing.

Turn Off Private Browsing

Click on the Tools menu and select the Private Browsing entry , which will show a check mark to indicate that Private Browsing is currently enabled.

The windows and tabs you were using when you enabled Private Browsing will appear, and you can use Firefox normally. The Firefox window’s title will no longer show (Private Browsing) when Private Browsing is off.

When Private Browsing is ON Firefox would not retain

Visited pages: The visited pages will be not added to the list of sites in the History menu, the Library window’s History list, or the Smart Location Bar’s address list.

Cookies: Files created by websites, that store information on your computer, such as your preferences when visiting that site (When a website has a “remember this” checkbox, they are using a cookie) will not be stored.

Web cache files: No temporary Internet files or cached files from web pages will be saved until you turn off Private Browsing.

Download List entries: No files you download will remain in the list in the Downloads window after you turn off Private Browsing.

Passwords: no passwords will be automatically filled in during the your Private Browsing session, and no new passwords will be saved.

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