Microsoft has added up a new feature in their new browser version internet explorer 8 where in the users can surf the web without recording data. The inPrivate mode will not record the users visited websites, history and will not allow the website’s to store cookies on the user’s PC. Many people have started calling this as ‘Porn Mode’ which helps people in viewing adult/NSFW websites during office hours or at home without being caught. As per microsoft there are many others uses of this inPrivate Browsing feature in Internet Explorer
Start InPrivate Browsing
Browse the web without saving your history.
Help prevent the websites you go to from automatically sharing details about your visit with other websites.
What is InPrivate Browsing?
InPrivate Browsing enables you to surf the web without leaving a trail in Internet Explorer. This helps prevent anyone else who might be using your computer from seeing where you visited and what you looked at on the web. You can start InPrivate Browsing from the New Tab page, or by pressing CTRL+ALT+P.
When you start InPrivate Browsing, Internet Explorer opens a new window. The protection that InPrivate Browsing provides is only in effect during the time that you use that window. You can open as many tabs as you want in that window, and they will all be protected by InPrivate Browsing. However, if you open another browser window, that window will not be protected by InPrivate Browsing. To end your InPrivate Browsing session, close the browser window.
While you are surfing using InPrivate Browsing, Internet Explorer stores some information—such as cookies and temporary Internet files—so that the webpages you visit will work correctly. However, at the end of your InPrivate Browsing session, this information is discarded. The following table describes which information InPrivate Browsing discards when you close the browser and how it is affected during your browsing session:
Information – How it is affected by InPrivate Browsing
Cookies Kept in memory so pages work correctly, but cleared when you close the browser.
Temporary Internet files Stored on disk so pages work correctly, but deleted when you close the browser.
Webpage history This information is not stored.
Form data and passwords This information is not stored.
Anti-phishing cache Temporary information is encrypted and stored so pages work correctly.
Address bar and search AutoComplete This information is not stored.
Automatic Crash Restore (ACR) ACR can restore when a tab crashes in a session, but if the whole window crashes, data is deleted and the window cannot be restored.
Document Object Model (DOM) storage The DOM storage is a kind of “super cookie” web developers can use to retain information. Like regular cookies, they are not kept after the window is closed.
Yeah, nice feature. Also available in Google Chrome 🙂
Superb browser for me
Well Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 offers you a many great features when compared to Mozilla i was shocking on seeing it’s unexpected features when compared Beta 1 one of the feature is Private browsing in which once the browser is closed the username,passwords, cookies, temp files etc used in the session get’s deleted automatically…
another one is Duplicate tab, which does not takes the for loading… The performance is also quite better…
im still not clear about the inprivate browsing stuff. Agreed that when you close the inPrivate tab you also delete all history. But how about during browsing session. Can a third party website monitor you during browsing session?