Firefox warning (from General Discussion)

[reisen55]

Be careful, this trusted web browser presents alternative new pages by visual format, so that ANYBODY who sits down at your computer can see what you are, eh, searching for .......................

[Fred588]

There are settings in Firefox to cause it to not remember your browsing history.

[Palinov Jensen]

Thanks for the heads up! I think I'll be sticking with Google Chrome!

[kham]

This has been around more than a little while, fellas
Dial down the paranoia

[nachtjaeger]

Actually, if anybody sits down to my PC and opens Chrome, they see the names and thumbnails of my favorite websites. But since my PC is password protected, and the only people in the house know what websites I visit anyway, not a problem.

Thanks for the heads up! I think I'll be sticking with Google Chrome!

[Boggy Man]

In my Firefox preferences, under "Privacy", I checked "Clear history when Firefox closes". As for those annoying tiles in a new tab:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/hide-or-display-sites-new-tab-page

Firefox also has private browsing:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/private-browsing/
http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/firefox-private-browsing/

Hope this helps.

[Nessie]

I just slid this over since it isn't about quicksand (except, your screenshot is quite nice!).

Nessie

[Green Heart]

The pinned page only shows websites you visit frequently, you can pin 9 harmless sites there by clicking the thumbnail icon on each picture and they won't get replaced then.

[Mynock]

1. Create shortcut to Chrome.

2. Right click-->Properties

3. Under the "Shortcut" tab there is a field named "Target". Should be filled in something like this (drive letter might vary)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

4. Don't change any of that, just add -incognito to the end of it, with a space between the last quotation mark and the dash. Like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -incognito

Now you can launch right into Chrome in Incognito mode without having to remember to turn it on. Other tabs you open in the browser will also be incognito.

[Fred588]

This is called "InPrivate" in Edge and "Private Browsing" in Firefox. I have no knowledge of, nor do I really care, how well each of these works.

1. Create shortcut to Chrome.

2. Right click-->Properties

3. Under the "Shortcut" tab there is a field named "Target". Should be filled in something like this (drive letter might vary)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

4. Don't change any of that, just add -incognito to the end of it, with a space between the last quotation mark and the dash. Like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" -incognito

Now you can launch right into Chrome in Incognito mode without having to remember to turn it on. Other tabs you open in the browser will also be incognito.