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Private browsing mode

When you select Start Private Browsing, Firefox add the text “(Private Browsing)” to its window title bar. In the private browsing mode, your existing tabs closed, but they reappear when you turn off the private browsing mode or close the private browsing window. In a Private Browsing session, Firefox won’t keep any browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files.  However, the download files and bookmarks you make will be kept.

You can make the Firefox forget any site in your history. When you want to perform Clear Recent History, Firefox allows you to clear the past hour, two hours, four hours, or whole day, or every thing. It also allows you to selectively clear browsing and download history, cache, cookies, logins, and site preference. Thus you have more control over cleaning the History.

Personas or themes

Firefox offers a variety of personas or themes for changing its appearance. Many personas can be downloaded from the Mozilla Update web site.

Extensions

Firefox has wealth of extensions. Extensions allow the addition of new features through the installation of small software modules. Mozilla Foundation provides a lot of extensions for download on the Mozilla Update site. Most extensions are small in size (only few kilobytes). There have been some security issues in using extensions. There is a possibility for a user to download a malicious extension. Firefox must be restarted after extensions are installed, uninstalled or disabled. You can upgraded all themes and extensions downloaded from the Mozilla Update site through the browser interface itself. The extensions help the user to do things in a convenient way. This is one of the main strengths of Firefox.

Security

Firefox is the browser of choice in the matter of security. You can easily access information about the validity of any site by clicking on the small icon to the left of the URL. Sites with valid identity information the icon area turns green and you can find the site owner information and encryption status by clicking the icon. They are listed under a green cop image. You can check this by visiting Paypal site.

Conclusion

The Firefox has few disadvantages also. Still the performance, convenience and security made it choice of power users.