Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 Now Available
Firefox 3.1 Beta is now available, surprisingly with little fanfare. The key feature that’s new to this version is private browsing mode, a browsing option where a user’s Internet usage is left unrecorded. Search, web and download histories, cookies and temporary Internet files are all untracked. It’s perfect for those clandestine surfing sessions. How does it fare in the beta?
In this mode, browsing history, cookies, and other traces of where the user has been, are not recorded for the duration of the session. In our earliest glimpses of this feature under Beta 2, we’ve found it to be functional; and it was actually working quite well in some of the earlier private developer builds.
The private browsing mode is symbolized by a mask icon, the type you’d expect to see in masquerade balls. It’s actually a formal and respectable symbol for a mode that’s meant for discretion. The other feature is for JavaScript although it doesn’t seem to be implemented well enough to yield significant results. If you want to participate in the beta and see the browser in action yourself, you can do so here.
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