Private browsing means browsing the web without leaving "tracks," such as cookies, history, cache data, etc., etc. This has been popularly called "porn mode." Only Safari currently supports this feature; it was pulled from Firefox 3 (there is, however, an add-on called Stealther some use).
Mozilla has announced a rough date for final release of Firefox 3 as well as a date-driven release schedule for Firefox 3.1.
Firefox 3 is now slated for "sometime in June," while Firefox 3.1 is scheduled for the end of the year.
One of the strengths of Firefox has been its large assortment of extensions, plug-ins and language packs, which extend its functionality in any number of ways. Internet Explorer has nowhere near the number or variety of add-ons. Of course, if one of them gets compromised ...
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation celebrated the 10th anniversary of the first release of its source code. On March 31st, 1998, Netscape released the code to its Netscape Communicator 5.0 browser under an open source license, birthing the Mozilla project.
