Private Browsing is one of the new feature in Firefox 3.5 browser. Sometimes you do not want other users of your computer to see or access previously visited or the username and password information.
In a Private Browsing session, Firefox won’t keep any browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files. However, files you download and bookmarks you make will be kept.
To start Private Browsing
Select Tools > Start Private Browsing.
Note: When you start private browsing in firefox, it will save your current opened tabs and open it when you are done with your private browsing session.
To stop Private Browsing
Select Tools > Stop Private Browsing, or close Firefox.
What Private Browsing will not retain
Visited pages
Form and Search Bar entries
Passwords
Download List entries
Cookies
Web cache files
Start Firefox in a private browsing session
If you want automatically enable Private Browsing mode whenever you start Firefox, follow the steps below.
1. Select Tools
2. Select Options
3. Select Privacy panel tab.
4. Select Use custom settings for history in the Firefox will: select box
5. Check the box Automatically start Firefox in a private browsing session.
Also Read: How to enable Private Browsing in Apple Safari Browser.
Please provide an option to disable private browsing. Not all of us want that feature on our computers.
Lane is right. Please give us some options.
People have children and no one should be hiding information from there spouse or partner.
Great way for my son to look at porn without me knowing. Thanks!
How to ENABLE history on Firefox? My boyfriend doesn’t want me to see sites he has visited and uses Firefox, but it is in my interest to know.
Please help. Simple directions please. He has Windows 7.
Do not want the private browsing. How can I delete this from safari and google chrome. My computer is not an apple/mac. Thank you!
I also agree. There should be a way to disable this function. If you don’t want it on your own personal computer, why should you HAVE to?
If possible, firefox should make a way to disable it. Thanx.
I also agree. This private browsing feature should be able to be removed.
Please provide an option to disable private browsing. Not all of us want that feature on our computers.
I agree with everyone else. How are we supposed to be able to disable the private browsing altogether?
ditto!!! How insane to not give us the option!!!
The title of this article is wrong, it should state
‘How to USE Firefox Private Browsing?’ it’s not telling anything on how to enable or disable private browsing.
Here’s what I’ve been doing since version 3.5 came out and made it impossible to know where my kids have been. http://www.justanswer.com/computer/3k7cg-disable-private-browsing-firefox.html
When you update Firefox, the file is reinstalled, so you have to make deleting this file part of your PC maintenance.
STUPID IDEA ON MOZILLA’S PART TO MAKE PRIVATE BROWSING AN AUTOMATIC FEATURE OF FIREFOX. IT SHOULD BE AN AD-ON.
Thanks.. now people can look at porn on my computer, and I won’t have any way of knowing. (:
And don’t say they can just delete the few pieces of history.. because cookies save them too.
However, this does not save cookies..
Please just give us the option..
OK this is wut i did n it gave me an error MSG when i tried starting Firefox 5. went to C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\components (its a 64 bit system) and i opened browsercomps.dll with notepad and went to edit then replace and replaced private-browsing for a 0 by selecting replace all
hope it helps i spent hrs google’n and found nothing so i try ed tempering with the files
my bad “when i tried starting Firefox 5” no only starting inprivate firefox started ok
That file doesn’t seem to be there anymore in Firefox 7.
Or at least I looked in the folder and there where only 2 .dll files in it.
Unfortunately that cheating husband of mine knows how firefox addons work, so that addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-private-browsing/ will only work temporarely -.-
Seriously Firefox. Are you supporting Kids watching porn on computers when parents can not watch??? Get rid of this stupid feature. I’m a parent and don’t want it on my computer. What were you even thinking?
and by watch, I mean watch what the kids are doing and keep it from happening. Stressed at the moment, due to your feature. Just a thought, you can likely get sued for having this a locked feature. Keep that in mind.