Monday 17 October 2011

How to start private browsing feature and restore the Private browsing confirmation Prompt in Mozila Firefox

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Private Browsing:
    This is an important feature of mozila firefox browser. By activating this feature anyone can access the internet from the mozila firefox and the browser do not save anything. It will not save anything means that it wont save the browsing history as well as not save any user name and password. So it is good to activate this feature whenever you are browsing the internet on any cybercafe or within a network of shared computer.

How to start Private browsing feature on Mozila Firefox:
   To start this just press ctrl + shift + P simultaneously whenever you are accessing internet from Mozila Firefox.
After pressing those keys firefox will ask a  confirmation message to start this.

Just Click on "Start Private browsing" . A new window will be opened in firefox for private browsing.Now Private browsing feature is enable on your browser.
To again come backto general browsing feature press ctrl + shift + P again.

This is an update of  http://www.mihirbabu.com/2011/10/how-to-start-private-browsing-feature_30.html
 Trouble shooting:
When ever you are staring private browsing feature on the confirmation prompt An check box (Do not show this message again) is available. If you accidentally select this option then whenever again you will start private browsing feature this dialogue box will not come. So that you will be not able to know wheter you are in private browsing or not. So you need to activate that warning messsage again.
To do so follow these:
1. Open firefox.
2. Now type "about:config" without quotes on the address bar and hit enter.
3. It will again show a confirmation prompt. Be careful that the check box there "Show the warrenty next time"  is selected.
4. Click on "I"ll be careful, I promise " button.
5. A configuration window will be open.
                   
6. Now type  "private" on the filter box.
7. You will find that the key "browser.privatebrowsing.dont_prompt_on_enter" is set to be true.
 If it is in true. Then it will not ask the confirmation prompt.
8. So change the value to false. To cahnge its value just double click on it.

How to start Private browsing automatically whenever we are opening firefox.
    To do so just change the value of "browser.privatebrowsing.autostart"  to true on step 7 of trouble shooting.

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