David.R.Gilson

Tip of the week 30th October 2009

Oct 30

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firefox, privacy

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If you need to ensure your privacy, here is an extension that (after you’ve added it’s little red X button to your toolbar) will close the tab you are currently on, AND delete all related cookies and history entries. It’s called Close n Forget. I affectionately think of it as the pr0n button.

I think this is a little better than the privacy mode of IE8 and Incognito mode of Chrome, because it works retro-actively and you don’t have to have some special mode running to use it.

One caveat, I’ve found in my testing of it that it will leave one entry in your history, just linking to the root (i.e. www.site.com) of the site you were on. Although one trip to the “Awesome Bar” with your Delete key will fix that.