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Firefox is in the news again this week, with two major
issues in the spotlight. First of all, the browser has reached a new milestone,
by passing the 20 percent threshold market share for the first time last month,
as reported by Net Applications.
Mozilla Firefox still has a long way to go before reaching
the market share of rival Internet Explorer, but we can’t help but noticing the
remarkable progress that browser has made in almost four years of existence.
With its popularity still growing, Mozilla announced this
week that a new feature will be available for testing, one that has been much
discussed before Firefox 3.0 came out: the Private Browsing (a.k.a. “porn mode”).
As developer Ehsan Akhgari noted on his blog, the
Private Browsing feature basically aims at helping users “leave no trace” of
their browsing activities on their computers. However, he explained, this is
not a tool for anonymization from websites and ISPs.
“Private Browsing is only about making sure that Firefox
doesn’t store any data which can be used to trace your online activities, no
more, no less,” Akhgari wrote. This means that whenever you close your browsing
windows, the Private Browsing feature will ensure nobody else but you will know what you did during your browsing session.
The feature, which was supposed to come out at the same time
with the summer launch of Firefox 3, had to be delayed, but we should expect to
find it in Firefox 3.1, after the testing period is over.
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