How to browse in Firefox 3 without Leaving a Trace? – Stealther
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Sometimes you may want to browse the internet at office or at home without leaving any trace about any kind of information related to the sites you browsed. For Firefox 3, you can do that by using the addon Stealther.
Stealther temporarily disables all information storing while browsing like, Browsing history, Cookies, Downloaded Files History, Disk Cache, Saved Form Information, Sending of Referrer Header, and recently closed tabs list.
The best thing about this add-on is that it just disables from the moment you turn on till you turn off. All the information you had stored before would be still available like frequently visited web sites etc.
Also you can customize on what are the different options you want to disable among the ones listed above.
And you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + S to turn on and turn off private browsing using Stealther.
Download Stealther for Firefox 3
This looks great, it is useful for me. Thanks for the heads up
This is a great alternative to manually clearing things. Thanks for sharing!
Nice tool. Good for using in public environments
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Pretty nice tool..
nice tool…but there another option to quickly clear up your history by pressing ctrl shift del.
Pressing ctrl shift del clears up recent history including the option which you cheex.
@abhishek, Thats a nice tip which I didn’t notice earlier.
Good find man! I will absolutely use this for err.. “stealthy” surfing.
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Another nice firefox addon.
Cool, porn at work!
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thats a good app to use in college will come handy
Distrust is much better imho, available for FF3 now
So its something like clearing browsing details from the browser. Or does it act like the anonymous surfing?
HERE ARE INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO REALLY CLEAR FIREFOX 3 DATA AND LEAVE NO TRACE.
A) Clear you caches (history, etc.) i.e. by setting it to automatically do so on exit.
B) Delete all your Bookmark Backups (some in folder, others elsewhere) AND Delete places.sqlite
That is where the Smart Search bar is pulling data from to a) suggest sites, b) estimate frequency of use
This is why sites that you have long deleted from your Bookmarks still show up as a suggestion even though you cleared browsing history and caches.
C) Detailed instructions as to how to put “Smart” search bar to sleep for good is attached below.
To include this “Smart” search function with no means of disabling it easily is one of the most elementary mistakes in software design – to not offer users a easy way to go back to what they know how to use and is comfortable with.
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Documentation:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=749915&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=15
From:
Message: Post 2262 on page 2 of link:
Posted July 21st, 2008, 3:07 am
“The awesomebar gets its results from two places:
- History (empty star in dropdown) which you can remove by highlighting the entry and pressing the delete button (or searching in the Library or history sidebar and deleting it).
- Bookmarks (gold star in dropdown) which you can search for in the Library or bookmarks sidebar and delete.”
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Documentation:
How to Disable “Smart” Search and autocomplete completely:
Information on how to exclude websites that you HAVE visited from the “smart” location bar:
EXCLUDE BOOKMARKS YOU HAVE VISITED
places.frecency.bookmarkVisitBonus
This preference set to 0 (zero) will remove the bookmarks you have visited from your results.
EXCLUDE URLS YOU HAVE NOT VISITED
places.frecency.unvisitedTypedBonus
This setting will have the greatest impact on how your results are found
A setting of 0 (zero) should give you a result of finding your URLs based on what you type being anywhere in the URL or page title.
A setting of 1 should result in placing of what you type anywhere in the title or URL being first, followed by the URL or title beginning with what you type.
A setting of 2 should result in only showing results based on what you type being at the beginning of the URL or page title.
INCLUDE ONLY URLS YOU HAVE TYPED
browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped
Set to: true
Here is how to DISABLE AWESOME BAR:
DISABLE “AWESOME” (LOCATION) TOOLBAR
Type: about:config in the Location Bar
In the filter field, type the below names:
browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped
Double click & value will be set to: true
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
Double click and type: -1
(Default is 12)
If this list is too LARGE or too small, right-click in the about:config list and choose:
New | Integer
Type: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults | press Enter.
When prompted, enter a value lower than the default of 12 if you want to see fewer lines in the drop-down list.
Enter a higher number if you want to see more lines here.
The list adds a scroll bar once it exceeds a certain size, so you can scroll through whichever number of items you requested in this setting.
It is not known if doing this will mean that no data will be collected in background even though it has been excluded.
http://www.windowsbbs.com/firefox-thunderbird-seamonkey/74695-firefox-3-0-tips-tricks
The program do not delete Bookmark Backups or Bookmarks and places.sqlite
I think those need to be added.
Nice info, but more stealth and security can be addressed using noscript. Noscript addon for that matter is different but it does provide a level of stealth.