“The experimental Private Browsing enhancements ready for testing today actively block website elements that could be used to record user behaviour across sites”. But what protects you from the sly web-based trackers recording datas without your knowledge?
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Mozilla Firefox plans to roll out this new iteration possibly to not only truly quantify a private browsing experience, but to regain Firefox’s demographic lost to Google’s Chrome.
The new Private Browsing mode for the Firefox web browser will not only keep no trace of your browsing history but also block online services from keeping a track of your online browsing behavior.
Mozilla’s experimental tool is designed to block outside parties like ad networks or analytics companies from tracking users through cookies and browser fingerprinting. Private browsing is really useful for accessing sensitive files such as confidential office work documents or sharing of confidential information regarding work and trade.
Although all of the popular browsers have some form of private browsing option, they usually focus on what’s going on locally.
Mozilla has also added the possibility to unblock some of these included elements because some websites may not be pursuant, but rather appear to be broken when scripts or other components are blocked.
Firefox test-build also enforces an add-on verification by default, which prevents the downloaded third-party apps or social plugins from adding unwanted toolbars, buttons, collect information, change your search settings or inject ads or malware into your device.
On a post on one of their blog’s Mozilla wrote that they have worked with many developers to create a process, which attempts to verify the add-ons installed on Firefox to meet guidelines as well as other criteria that has been developed to ensure they are safer for the user.
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Mozilla’s Private Browsing enhancements are available to any Firefox Developer Edition on Windows, Mac, and Linux with the updated pre-beta version of the browser, according to PC World.
