Firefox 3.1: Automatically Start in Private Browsing Mode

Contributor Icon Contributed by shamanstears Date Icon November 26, 2008  
Tag Icon Tagged: Mozilla Firefox

Private Browsing allows you to surf the web without recording a history of the sites visited and without saving any information about the session. If Firefox is to be installed on a public computer, then starting it in Private Browsing mode is a must.

1. Open Firefox 3.1.

2. In the Location Bar, input about:config.

3. Click to get past the warning message that appears.

4. Locate the Preference Name browser.privatebrowsing.autostart.

5. Double-click the preference and change the value to true.

The next time you open Firefox, it will be in Private Browsing mode.

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  • JC
    by any chance, would this also work for any application data information, such as flashplayer cache and saved object? Flash and other 'equivalent' 3rd part apps presents in web page store a lot of information... Looking at the Application Data folder, it is possible basically to see the list of web sites currently looked at, as most of them use flash...
  • fastfreddie1959
    In mine it did not exsist.
    Had to right click-new-Bootlean-browser.privatebrowsing.autostart.--and put in true.
  • Manu
    "browser.privatebrowsing.autostart" .. it is not present as an option..
  • FF
    No option as browser.privatebrowsing.autostart on mine... i'm running the latest version.
  • reelz
    this is for 3.1 beta peeps
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