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Mozilla Firefox Privacy Controls

26.07.2007. 05:53

Clear Private Data

Protect your privacy with the new Clear Private Data tool. With a single click, you can delete all personal data, including browsing history, cookies, Web form entries and passwords. Firefox puts all the privacy-related settings in a single spot, which makes it easy to clear out personal data. Click Tools, Options and select the Privacy icon. You will see tabs or a list of realed privacy / security options.

History - You can clear your history of pages you have visited recently.
Saved Forms - Saved form data with confidential form values might want to be cleared if the PC is to be used with various users in a household.
Passwords - Firefox, like other browsers allows you to save password for secured (username+password) web sites. Again, you might want to clear these values for security reasons.
Download History - A history of applications, videos, music, and other media downloaded is stored for future review if neccesary.
Cookies - My favorite tab is the cookies tab. It allows you to view cookies set by web sites to determine what they might be used for. Tracking cookies can be used to view browser surf patterns, and are considered "evil" by most Anti-Spyware applications.
Cache - Cache helps users save bandwidth by serving local cache. However, you might want to clear your cache once a month to avoid the pitfalls of obsolete page content. Mozilla, uses the cache when the web server responds that it has not modified the page content to save bandwidth and speed up your download.

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