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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
type="topic" style="task"
id="browse-private">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#start"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-06-30" status="review"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<!-- <credit type="copyright editor">
<name></name>
<email its:translate="no"></email>
<years></years>
</credit>-->
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>What is the <gui>Incognito</gui> mode?</desc>
</info>
<title>Private browsing</title>
<comment>
<cite date="2013-06-30">Kat</cite>
<p>Private browsing does not allow websites access to normal mode cookies
and does not save cookies from the private browsing session, while allowing
read-only access to the normal history. This page is aimed at people who do
not know what a cookie is.</p>
</comment>
<p>Private browsing is a mode which limits the way that your computer and
websites can access your browsing information. It is useful if you want to
lend your computer to a friend, for example, to check their email using
webmail because you will not be logged into any websites in the private
browsing window, nor will their information be saved. This also means that
private browsing is a more secure way of accessing sensitive website such as
Internet banking and
<link href="http://questionablecontent.net/">questionable content</link>
because it is more difficult for websites to identify you when in Incognito
mode.</p>
<steps>
<title></title>
<item>
<p>Select <guiseq><gui style="menu">Web</gui><gui style="menuitem">New
Incognito Window</gui></guiseq>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Browse the web using the Incognito mode.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>End the private browsing session by closing the Incognito mode
window.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<p>You can distinguish private browsing from normal browsing by the dark
theme that is used for the Incognito window:</p>
<figure>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="figures/private-browsing-3-8.png">
<p>Fullscreen screenshot showing a normal session in a window on the left
side of the screen and a private browsing session in a different window
on the right side of the screen.</p>
</media>
<p>A screenshot showing a normal session with some history in the left
window and a private browsing session in the right window</p>
</figure>
</page>
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