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“Private Browsing” Ain’t Gonna Make It to Firefox 3.0 - Download Day Approaches
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After a lot of speculations and hulla-baloo over the most anticipated feature of Mozilla Firefox 3.0, “Private Browsing” is not going to make it to the D-Day. According to the interview of Johnathan Nightingale on Robert Vamosi’s podcast, he says, “We looked at ways to do this, but the problem is that it touches a lot of code. Because there are such rich interactions with Web sites and mashups and things like that, we didn’t want to put in something that was half baked.”
“Private Browsing” is actually feature which enables one to browse without leaving a single trace behind. This is very useful for users who use public computers and are paranoid about the security of their private data. According to the plans, all that would have been needed to be done was click a buttong and none of the sessions, text inputs of even visited web sites would have been saved. I have a feeling that if this feature could have been made a standard in the browser, Mozilla Firefox 3.0 would have been the browser of choice for every single cyber cafe around the world.
Till the time Mozilla actually launches the feature, here’s an extension called Distrust, by Skatter Tech, that you could use to emulate the upcoming “Private Browsing” feature.
And yeah, don’t forget to download Firefox 3.0 tomorrow (July 17, 2008) and help Mozilla create the world record of most downloads in a day.
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