Private Browsing Without Closing The Active Firefox Session

One of the things that has always annoyed me in regards to Firefox’s private browsing mode was the fact that the browser did close the active session before switching to that mode. And while Firefox offers to save the active session, that is the open tabs and other session related information, it is nowhere near as comfortable as a solution that would spawn a new private browsing window without affecting the active session.

Google Chrome and the Opera web browser handle the private browsing mode this way for instance. When you start the incognito mode in Chrome for instance, you will notice that it spawns in a new window without affecting the old regular browser window.

Private Browsing Windows for the Firefox web browser bypasses the restriction in Firefox. Since it is not possible to override the feature directly to open the private browsing mode in a new window, developer Sören Hentzschel came up with the next best possibility: Use a different Firefox profile to load the private browsing mode window. This way, it is possible to keep the original Firefox window and have the private browsing window appear in a new window at the same time.

The extension will automatically use a profile that is labelled as private. It will otherwise launch the built-in Firefox profile manager to provide the user with a selection menu (and an option to create a new profile if only one exists). This profile is then used to load the private browsing window in Firefox. The profile manager pops up every time, unless you change the name of a profile to private.

Private Browsing Windows adds an icon into Firefox’s add-on bar that triggers the extension’s functionality.

Users who try the extension need to keep in mind that they need to close the browser windows in the correct order, to avoid the loading of the wrong profile on the next start.

The extension can be useful for Firefox users who work in the private browsing mode from time to time, and wish that there was a way to keep the regular browser window open when they do.

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Monk Active Skills And A Few Several Types Of Abilities

Being a monk you'll have three different skill types for your use. Spirit generator and also spender abilities and also mantras. It's your job to balance these three abilities to make yourself the most effective. The concept is that you would be throwing out a number of spirit generator moves in order to save up for one spender move that you unleash at a critical moment. Through the entire fight you need to be using mantras every time they become available to you because they are free of charge.
Spirit generator moves would be the bread and butter of your Monk Active Skills. You will throwing them out just like wildfire the whole time you play, to get that spirit gauge as soon as you can. These Monk Active Skills focus entirely on damage to one or various opponents. As you level up you'll want to have one single target generator capability, like Fists of Thunder, for those strong single targets as well as an AOE, for example Crippling Wave, for those times when you are being swarmed. Having a good mix of spirit generator abilities is the most important skill choice you should make, because they are what you would be utilizing the majority of the time.

Understanding how to utilize your spirit spender skills properly may help carry you by the tougher parts of Diablo 3. Basically of all the Monk Active Skills, the spirit spender abilities are meant to get you from trouble. If you are healing yourself, or perhaps blinding all your enemies and flipping to safety, your spirit spender abilities are good at fending off a group which is overwhelming you.

By keeping up spirit for your time if you need it the most, you will be able to tip an uneven fight back on your behalf. Spirit spender abilities are a mixture of damage and power spells. Some help you do high levels of damage to single or numerous targets, while some are much more situational, throwing out a decoy to distract a team, or allowing you to flip from a surrounding number of enemies for instance.

Mantras are similar to the particular paladins auras of Diablo 2. You could have a single mantra active at a time, but once active they only last a minute before having a 15 second cooldown, which makes them more situational. The mantras buff an aspect of you plus your team mates. You will find mantras that boost defense, evasion, a healing ability and offense. Remembering to turn on the mantra that your group needs could make battles go a lot more smoothly and it also won't cost you anything.

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Close’n Forget Removes Active Sites From Firefox’s History

You sometimes may want to erase traces of web pages that you have visited in the past. This is especially useful on multi-user systems where every user is sharing the same account and profile, but also for privacy conscious users who want to protect their privacy from third parties (for instance during US border controls or theft).

While it is possible to use programs like CCleaner for that, its all or nothing approach may suite everyone’s needs. Another possibility would be the private browsing mode, but that too has disadvantages like having to switch between normal and private browsing mode whenever necessary.

The free Firefox add-on Close’n forget adds a third possibility to the browser. The extension by default removes all cookies of the active tab. This alone may be useful in some situations, but it is not removing all traces of the website from the browser.

Users should pay a visit to the extension’s options where they can improve the functionality. Here they can enable the removal of the current site and the removal of all pages viewed in a tab from the web browser’s history. It is in addition possible to remove cookies from all subdomains of the root domain as well.

When you run the command then, the add-on will not only remove cookies but also the browsing history from the browser.

Firefox users have three options to run the cleanup. They can right-click on the page and select the close and erase cookies for the current site option from the context menu, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-w to do the same.

It is alternatively possible to add one or two add-on buttons to a Firefox toolbar. This is done by clicking on Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout, and dragging and dropping the buttons to a browser toolbar. The first button clears the cookies and browsing history of the active tab, the second does that for all tabs open in the current window.

The tab will be closed automatically, and all traces will be removed from the cookies storage and browser history.

The developer notes that the extension sometimes cannot clear the browsing history completely. This is the reason why the feature is disabled by default. You can verify that everything has been cleared by visiting the history page of the browser.

Firefox users who are interested in the extension can download and install it from the Mozilla Firefox Add-ons repository.

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