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: