why upgrade? to hide stuff from your wife?

[acroyear]

Interesting selling point, Micro$oft...

Why You Should Upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 Now | LiveScience:

IE8 also offers a private browsing mode called InPrivate, which Microsoft touts as a way to shop for surprise gifts, but it's commonly referred to as "porn mode." Private browsing automatically conceals sites visited by erasing browsing and search history, cookies, form data and passwords. It also clears the browser cache at the end of each session. Once activated, subsequent users will not stumble across any previous data.

To turn on InPrivate, open a new tab, select "InPrivate" under the Safety dropdown menu, which will open a new browsing window. As long as you stay in this second window, your data will not be stored.

Comments

[faireraven.livejournal.com]

It's so you can hide your porn from your coworkers and avoid problems with the police finding porn cookies in your cache when they investigate you on L&O SVU.

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

shrug. firefox has had that for a while

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Same with Safari.

[blueeowyn.livejournal.com]

You mean there are people who don't default to blowing out the cookies & history upon closing the browser. I mean some of the browsers make it, um, challenging to figure out how to do that (I haven't figured out how to do that in Chrome yet) but if you work with any sort of sensitive site, you need to get rid of those cookies.