3. 5. Privacy tab in Firefox, Tutorial
Firefox » Tools menu » Options » Privacy tab presented
Privacy tab allows you to set your privacy settings like: remember or not your browsing ⁄ download ⁄ search history, browse in private mode, accept cookies from websites or not..
The first part of the video tutorial below illustrates the difference between those aspects, while the second part reveals how each suggested category influence your suggestions in the Location bar.
- History:
- Remember history
- Never remember history
- Use custom settings
- Location bar-suggestions:
- History & Bookmarks
- History
- Bookmarks
- Nothing
Video demonstration Firefox: Privacy tab
3. 5. Privacy tab in Firefox, Tutorial
| min | video details |
|---|---|
| 00:07 | open Options window -Privacy |
| 00:11 | HISTORY: |
| 00:13 | Remember history |
| 00:17 | test: remember history |
| 00:30 | test result: ok |
| 00:38 | clear history |
| 00:51 | history cleared |
| 00:57 | remove individual cookies |
| 01:04 | Never remember history |
| 01:09 | test: never remember history |
| 01:25 | test result: ok |
| 01:33 | Never remember History option uses the same settings as Private Browsing |
| 01:37 | Use custom settings for history - private browsing - accept cookies |
| 01:45 | test: private browsing - accept cookies |
| 01:52 | test result: ok |
| 02:01 | Use custom settings for history - private browsing - do not accept cookies |
| 02:05 | test: private browsing - do not accept cookies |
| 02:20 | test result: ok |
| 02:44 | Use custom settings for history - remember history but clear it when Firefox closes - cookies off |
| 02:53 | test: remember history but clear it when Firefox closes |
| 03:15 | test result: ok |
| 03:20 | Use custom settings for history - remember history but clear.. - cookies off but exception added |
| 03:30 | test: cookies off but exception for facebook.com added |
| 03:49 | test result: ok |
| 03:57 | cookies: remove exception |
| 04:11 | LOCATION BAR: |
| 04:11 | suggest from: History and Bookmarks |
| 04:37 | test: suggestions from History or Bookmarks |
| 04:40 | test result: ok (yahoo in History) |
| 04:46 | test result: ok (wikipedia in Bookmarks) |
| 04:57 | suggest from: History |
| 04:59 | test: suggestions from History only |
| 05:03 | test result: ok (yahoo in History) |
| 05:11 | test result: ok (wikipedia in Bookmarks not in History so No Suggestion) |
| 05:20 | suggest from: Bookmarks |
| 05:21 | test: suggestions from Bookmarks only |
| 05:22 | test result: ok(wikipedia suggested because it's in Bookmarks) |
| 05:30 | suggest: Nothing |
| 05:32 | test: no suggestion |
| 05:33 | test result: ok (yahoo in History, though no suggestion |