12 Sep 08 Firefox 3.1 and IE8 adding Google Chrome’s Incognito Stealth Mode!
Chrome brings Incognito to Firefox 3.1 and IE8
Google Chrome might lack in terms of experience in comparison to Mozilla Firefox 3.1 and Microsoft’s IE8 but it turns out Firefox and IE will be implementing Chrome’s incognito stealth mode.
The incognito steath mode in Google Chrome browser (Ctrl+Shift+N in Google Chrome opens a new “incognito window”) allows users to surf the web anonymously, the browser skipping caching, saving passwords, and other important information that might possibly harm the user. (Of course, for you porno freaks, this is a perfect way to “hide” your traces.)
It’s a simply concept but Google’s Chrome browser has included as a standard option. It’s not surprising that Firefox 3.1 and IE8 will have the same feature as it’s not too complicated to implement other than “not storing any of users’ data”.
September 11, 2008 (Computerworld) Mozilla Corp. will respond to rivals Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. with a private-browsing mode in Firefox, according to notes posted on its Web site, and is on track to deliver one in 3.1, the version that will likely go beta next month.
via computerworld
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Uhm, correct me if I’m wrong, but IE 8 had incognito mode as a feature before Google announced and released Chrome…so yeah, might want to tweak your headline/picture just a bit.
And by “adding” you mean “IE 8’s last public beta hasd it implemented several weeks before Chrome was announced, and the IE8 team announced their version several months ago.”
Well we all know IE is losing popularity, especially among the web developers as far as compatibility is concerned. Time will tell if IE8 will suck like IE7.