Mozilla Question

3/30/12

[pabianice]

I am running Mozilla. I am wary of being tracked by cookies and malicious software and have gone to the Options page and told it to delete my browser history under Privacy and it says I have done so. Yet, when I go back to history, it is all recorded there. How do I permanently delete the history of my page visits to stop malware?

Thanks.

[DBrow]

There are options under Tools->Clear History, like the time range. Click the “details” tab and you’ll see option boxes to click, you can select what you want to scrub.

[duckman]

If you have release 4 or greater, there is a do not track function provided. My version is 3.xxx, and I go into the options and remove cookies manually. I don’t know if this solves my problems; but it’s an attempt. Also make sure you have a good anti-virus. I have blocked Google, and use other browsers. Hope this helps.

[Bigh4u2]

Go to “preferences.privacy’

Check ‘Tell websites I do not want to be tracked’.

Under ‘History’ select “Never remember history”

[Bigh4u2]

Oh..

And then restart Firefox.

[Mad Dawgg]

Download Peer Block and make sure it is set to block HTTP/websites tracking attempts.

[Bigh4u2]

I have ‘Abine’.

Does the same thing.

[piroque]

Try the add on collusion and Abine.com DNT+works ,,

[Last Dakotan]

Use the TACO (Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-out) addons for Firefox.

I like and have been using beef taco.

[Mad Dawgg]

also I suggest the “No Script” addon it saves a lot of grief.

[Psycho_Bunny]

There’s a good add on called Do Not Track Plus. Use it in conjunction with AdBlock Plus and FlashBlock

[Texas Fossil]

May I suggest adding the “Better Privacy” plug-in which deletes persistent cookies. (flash cookies)

[TomGuy]

Abine.com’s DoNotTrack is good. Also Adblock Plus.

Additionally, if you decide to visit ‘certain’ sites and want no record, switch FF to the Private Browsing mode. I am not sure at which version they added it. I am currently running FF 11.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I agree, Better Privacy is the addon for Firefox. Once installed, go to pull down menu, Tools, and control history and persistent cookies (Macromedia) from there.

[ducttape45]

good advice. Ping for later usage. (very helpful, thanks!)

[nathanbedford]

ping

[Pelham]

The Chrome browser has an incognito mode that might be what you are trying to do:

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95464