Saturday, March 17, 2012

Private Browsing


The way you start private browsing is a little different for some of the most popular browsers. In most cases you will open the browser go to setting and start private browsing. That is great but what if you want to automatically start private browsing automatically?
  
This tutorial will cover why it can be important to use private browsing and how to set up private browsing on the three most popular browsers on Windows.

Browsing in Private mode can be very useful in many situation. For many people they simply do not like the fact that a browser can keep all of you information such as your cookies, or username, and password.

If you are using a public computer I strongly recommend you use private browsing. I also recommend you use it at home if you have a lot of people jumping on your computer. Especially if you have a roommate the likes to snoop around. 

Take for instance if you have an Amazon account and you log in all of you information can be automatically saved. So when your roommate comes in they can log into your account. If you have one click buy it would be easy for them to get in your computer and order something. Private browsing could prevent this from happening. 

It is pretty easy to set up automatic browsing on some of the most popular browsers by following the steps below. Scroll down to you browser of choice.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 9

First you will right click on the Internet Explorer Icon

Next you will select Properties

At the end of Target line you will type -private 

Select Apply and you should be all set
Now when you select your icon it will be set to private browsing

Mozilla Firefox
First you will right click on the Firefox Icon

Next you will select Properties

At the end of Target line you will type -private 

Select Apply and you should be all set
Now when you select your icon it will be set to private browsing


Google Chrome
First you will right click on the Chrome Icon

Next you will select Properties

At the end of Target line you will type --incognito 

Select Apply and you should be all set
Now when you select your icon it will be set to incognito mode