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In 2013, Firefox for Android added a guest session mode, which wiped browsing data such as tabs, cookies, and history at the end of each guest session. Guest session data was kept even when restarting the browser or device, and deleted only upon a manual exit. The feature was removed in 2019, purportedly to "streamline the experience". [84] [85]
Private browsing modes are commonly used for various purposes, such as concealing visits to sensitive websites (like adult-oriented content) from the browsing history, conducting unbiased web searches unaffected by previous browsing habits or recorded interests, offering a "clean" temporary session for guest users (for instance, on public computers), [7] and managing multiple accounts on ...
Mozilla Firefox (desktop version) records history indefinitely by default inside a file named places.sqlite, but automatically erases the earliest history upon exhausted disk space, [1] while Google Chrome (desktop version) stores history for ten weeks by default, automatically pruning earlier entries.
[95] [96] Version 1.1 (released on June 10, 2009, to the Mozilla Add-ons service) and later of the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant allows the user to disable and uninstall in the normal fashion. [97] Firefox was one of the twelve browsers offered to European Economic Area users of Microsoft Windows from 2010 – see BrowserChoice.eu. [98]
In June 2022, Microsoft permanently retired Internet Explorer in favor of Microsoft Edge as their sole browser. [77] [78] As of January 2023, Microsoft Edge was the 3rd most used web browser having 4.46% as market share. [79] In 2023, Internet Explorer was permanently disabled by Microsoft on most versions of Windows 10. [80]
These instructions work for Firefox, SeaMonkey, and other related browsers. On Windows and Linux, use one of the following: Hold both the Ctrl and ⇧ Shift keys and then press R. Hold the ⇧ Shift key and click the Reload button on the navigation toolbar. Hold the Ctrl key and press the F5 key. On macOS, use one of the following:
HTTPS Everywhere was inspired by Google's increased use of HTTPS [8] and is designed to force the usage of HTTPS automatically whenever possible. [9] The code, in part, is based on NoScript's HTTP Strict Transport Security implementation, but HTTPS Everywhere is intended to be simpler to use than No Script's forced HTTPS functionality which requires the user to manually add websites to a list. [4]
User Account Control (UAC) is a mandatory access control enforcement feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista [1] and Windows Server 2008 operating systems, with a more relaxed [2] version also present in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10, and Windows 11.