Another browser for privacy? Who needs it?
So last week another browser called Browzar hit the market, and its claim is that this browser does not save any search, cookies, history, etc.. so you have better privacy. Problem is, you lose tabbed browsing, right-click options, keyboard shortcuts, and support for any other OS but Win32, and all the while ignoring the fact that Firefox already does this with built-in options.
No thanks, I’ll just stick to Firefox with its customized privacy options that can clear whatever I ask it to when I want to. Here is what Firefox (latest version at least) can do for you. Click Tools >> Options, and then select the Privacy tab at the top. In these options you can customize all your privacy settings, and clear them if need be. But the best part can be found behind the “Settings” button.
Behind this button you can specify what information you want to clear, and Firefox will prompt you about what information to delete, when you close Firefox. I like using these options on my work PC to keep certain passwords private. Since companies own the PC’s we work on, they have every right to look through you cache, cookies, and histories whenever they want. It’s not that I surf non-work-safe sites, but I do not want anyone in the support group to have access to any cookies that might give them access to sites like this one, or Amazon, etc..
But it gets worse, Browzar is simply an IE plugin that directs searches from its built in search bar to affiliated search engines. In other words, it is trumped up adware. Besides, who wants to start considering ANOTHER browser’s quirks when designing sites?