When viewing pages on the Internet, each user usually leaves behind “traces”. You may have noticed that filling out forms on websites can already be filled out automatically (login, nickname, e-mail, name, password, etc.), and when you enter an address in the address bar, frequently typed addresses are already inserted, and frequently visited pages (sites) open faster than the first time, etc.
The point is that you usually save all this information, and it is also transmitted and remains on websites and on your computer in the form.
On the one hand, this is convenient, because you don’t need to enter all this data every time and everything happens quite quickly, but on the other hand, attackers can gain access to this data and use it to hack you. And another person who uses your computer can see your browsing or download history, and in general all your activity on the Internet.
In this article I will show how you can use the browser in private browsing mode (incognito), as a result of which your data will not be saved anywhere and no one will know where you were and what you did.

What is private mode in the browser?
This is a mode of viewing web pages in which the browser leaves no traces of its presence either for the pages themselves or for other users. It is also called incognito mode.

As a result of such viewing, the following information will not be saved:
- web form and search data you fill out;
- entered passwords;
- all visited web pages;
- cookies of visited sites;
- download list in the Download Window;
- cached and offline content;
- user data.

By the way, you can create bookmarks in this mode and they will be displayed in normal mode. This is convenient when you “wandered” the Internet, found an interesting site and decided to save it so you can look at it later.

I would also like to note that when you turn on this mode, a new window (not a tab) opens in which you can visit pages, and a recent page will also be opened. Those. As a result, it turns out that you can sit in both normal mode and private mode at the same time, which allows you to sit in one window, for example, and surf the Internet in another without fear that your data and information may be found out.

Private Browsing in Internet Explorer

Method 1: keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P.

Method 2: menu Service - Browsing InPrivate

In both methods, a new private mode window will open:

Private browsing in Firefox

Method 1: keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+P .

Method 2: menu File - New private window

Method 3: right-click on any link on the site, and then, in the context menu that appears, select Open link in new private window

In any of these methods (except the last) the result will be a new private window:

By the way, if you click on the menu Tools - Settings in Mazil Firefox:

then the settings window will open, and there will be a tab Safety, in which you can make the browser always be in private access mode:

Private browsing in Opera

Method 1: keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+N

Method 2: Opera top menu - Tabs and windows - Create a private tab or Create a private window:

As you can see, Opera has also created a private tab, maybe this will be just as convenient for someone.

By the way, Opera also has settings

that can help with privacy:

The private mode window in Opera is as follows.