privacy
Preventing specific sites from showing up in Firefox history
Concerns over a user’s privacy on the Internet is always a hot topic for debate. There likely isn’t a single user out there that would say yes, I’m ok with Company A tracking my browsing habits – safe to say? Unsurprisingly, I’m apt to agree and say that my privacy on the Internet is important [...]
Delete Firefox Browsing History Selectively by Site
The three major browsers out there – Firefox, Chrome, and IE – all include functionality that allows for private browsing sessions. While each browser likes to put their own name on the feature the idea remains the same, websites and any related data collected in a private session is deleted and removed from the computer [...]
Disabling Firefox 3.5’s New Geolocation Feature
Location-aware browsing has taken the world by storm; mainly from the creative uses of the technology in Apple’s iPhone. As a result, many other handset manufacturers have jumped on the bandwagon with their own iterations. For the unaware, location-aware browsing allows me to locate all coffee shops with free WiFi, ordered by distance away from [...]
Preventing Browser History Deletion in Internet Explorer
Most Internet users are aware that their web browsers are tracking and recording every visit to every website. It’s trivial to follow the browsing session breadcrumb of a user if you have access to their computer. Both Firefox and Internet Explorer will display the browsing history by using the keyboard shortcut CTRL+H inside the browser. [...]
Automatically Start IE8, Firefox, Chrome in Private Browsing Mode
Web privacy is quite a hot topic as of late. The idea that most everything we do on the Internet is tracked and then used against us – not necessarily meant to be a negative – is understood by a greater percentage of users, not just the web savvy folks of even a year ago. [...]
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