Microsoft’s IE8 To Get Privacy Feature
Aug 2nd, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Biz-Tech, TechnologyThe new Internet Explorer 8 web browser will get privacy mode in its new Beta version which will be released at the end of the year.
The official Microsoft IEBlog has listed fews changes which will take place in the next beta version. In the blog, company also admitted that privacy becomes now the central part of user’s attention. Therefore, Blogpost was started with the question “Have you ever wanted to take your web browsing ‘off the record’?”
“Perhaps you’re using someone else’s computer and you don’t want them to know which sites you visited. Maybe you need to buy a gift for a loved one without ruining the surprise.”

Due to the new privacy features “InPrivate” , New explorer now stops from saving any kind of temp internet files, Cookies , and history. When the Inprivate features is turned on, it will not store the new cookies but still allows existing cookies to be read from the computer. Furthermore, new history entries, form data, search queries and temporary web files will be cleaned out at the completion of internet session.
Microsoft also described the InPrivate feature as “a feature designed to help give you information about third-party content that has a line of sight into your Web browsing, and gives you a choice about what information you share with these sites.”







