How to use IE 8’s InPrivate Browsing?
Posted on May 26, 2009 at 5:12 am
Do you want to keep your browsing history unrecorded? InPrivate browsing in IE 8 helps prevent anyone else who might be using your computer from seeing where you visited and what you looked at on the web.
It basically allows you to browse the Internet anonymously. When you start InPrivate Browsing, Internet Explorer opens a new window.
The protection that InPrivate Browsing provides is only in effect during the time that you use that window. You can open as many tabs as you want in that window, and they will all be protected by InPrivate Browsing.
To open InPrivate browsing, click Safety then choose InPrivate Browsing:
A new window will appear. You should see the InPrivate label on the new window. Use this to browse webpages that you don’t to be recorded.
Take note, only the windows with InPrivate labels are not recorded – all other IE windows are recorded in the history.
This is a good feature if you want to visit a page in private using a shared computer. The traditional way is to clear the history manually after you browse the URL – it could be troublesome and you could miss other tracks like cookies and subsidiary URLs.
If you just want to clear the history, you can do so by clicking the delete browsing history under the Safety menu:
All of your browsed pages recorded in the history in IE will be deleted.
Here are other browsing privacy tips we posted here in Online-Tech-Tips.com
- How to clear your Google search history
- Vanishd – Browse the Internet privately
- How to delete cookies
Ben Carigtan shows you how it’s done.
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July 26th, 2010 at 6:18 am
No more embarrassing situations when the Missus finds my porn then
Love the new InPrivate browsing feature!
If I am browsing the web using InPrivate Browsing, does that mean that there is no trace of my browsing history anywhere at all, locally on my computer and elsewhere?
What about the site that I am visiting, can it record my IP? Are cookies stored in this mode? Thanks
Is there really no record of your browsing history using InPrivate browsing? For some reason, I always feel Microsoft builds a backdoor so that it can somehow be found and accessed!
@Kailie, @Haley – Not sure if this will answer your question or not, but here is the official Microsoft page on InPrivate browsing:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/safer.aspx
Just click on InPrivate Filtering at the left menu and it tells you all the details.
Help! I have had a few occasions while surfing the internet that my browser started in inprivate and when it opened it was on a very obscene site? How could this happen?
inprivate browsing is starting without me even doing it sometimes it brings up porn websites. Does this mean the hackers have figured a way to send porn through some portal? HELP!