Net browser promises private surf

[acmejack]

A web browser has been released that promises total privacy for its users.

Browzar, as it is known, automatically deletes all traces of the pages a person has visited, and the terms that they have searched for on the web.

Most web browsers, including Microsoft's Internet Explorer, allow users to do this manually.

The developers of the browser say that it will be useful for people who want to protect their privacy on work PCs or when using shared PCs in net cafes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5305250.stm

[mainegreen]

1. Bah, its IE based and leaves traces in

C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat

Firefox still rules.

[acmejack]

2. Have to tell you, Maine, I'm quite an Opera devotee.

It is Netscape based, but a nice package. I've been using it since v3.1, it's up to 9.01. If you haven't looked at it, it is worth at least acursory examination. Browsers are so personal, it's really hard to change. Never had a single issue though with Opera, bulletproof. They finally started giving it away too.

Dude, you are kicking ass in the folding, too. What are you running? We apparently signed up about a day apart.

[madokie]

3. A question, will Opera do everything, I mean is there ever any reason

to still have IE other than the fact that bill gates wants us to have it. but seriously do you ever have to go to ie for any reason. I'm using IE 7 at the moment and so far so good. I would like to have a little more customization options though. I notice that when I open another tab the first thing it says is connecting, so is it having to reload for each tab and does Opera9 do that? anyways I am looking for a better browser

[sendero]

5. No..

... Opera is not 100%, people still build web sites that are not W3C spec and will render properly only in IE. But they are getting scarcer every day. I only have to step outside Opera once in a great while.

[acmejack]

6. I haven't opened IE for any reason at all in years.

Well you need it to use microsoft updates but other than that, not at all. Once I figured out how to do the updates without IE I uninstalled IE from my windows machine, but you probably don't want to do that until you are sure of yourself.

[madokie]

10. you can actually uninstall ie, I thought it was a necessary evil

as per bill gates and company. I have tried so many browsers and wanna be's of late and just last week reformatted and reloaded all my programs, I was getting the thing pretty cluttered. could you post the link you posted a while back about learning Opera in thirty days or something like that. maybe this time I will follow through with the lesson.

[sendero]

4. I'm also an opera fan..

... been using it for 5-6 years. It occasionally has issues but overall the incredible features like "mouse gestures" (to go Back, just right click and slide the mouse left a bit, for example) and the Tabbed browsing feature is way beyond Firefox, you can have 40 windows open without taking up half your browing view space.

I have to admit it kind of annoys me that everyone piles on the Firefox bandwagon when Opera was and is ahead of the pack for ages. :)

[madokie]

7. I think ie 7 has mouse gestures but I have them turned off

think I'll try it and see what I think. may just be the solution to my biggest complaint

[sendero]

8. IE's..

... biggest problem is that it is a security sieve. I know MS made a concerted effort to close up the security holes, but I just, after 10 years of this crap, have no confidence in them.

Opera is free and takes only a half-hour of playing around to love :)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. No It Doesn't. Stop Making Things Up Please.

Do you have any facts behind your accusation or do you just say things for the sake of sounding knowledgeable?

According to the article, you are dead wrong.

"This also means that there is no web history folder on a user's hard drive, that records visited sites.

So called cached webpages are also not stored. Normally these webpages are kept on a computer's hardrive to speed up the download times of frequently visited websites. "

[Massacure]

11. Meh, I'll stick with Firefox.