Use Safety Precautions on The Interne

If you are planning to remain safe from the watching eyes of the big brother, you need to learn a thing or two about your computer system and the browser. Browsers are the programs which allow you to access the internet. Some of the popular browsers are Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and Safari. 

Every browser maintains some cookies. These cookies maintain a record of your internet behaviour, your log in details and more. You might have seen how the browsers suggest to fill up boxes, using their older cookies. When you return to a website, the website can recognise you from these cookies as it is the websites you visit who sets up these cookies on the browser. 

There is also a factor called cache. This is where the browser maintains copies of the webpages and websites you have visited. Finally, there is history, which tells us which are the websites you have been visiting.

Now, these are personal details and should not be shared. However, there are people who would want to know these records. A hacker, for example, would be very interested in your cookies. A government agency, like NSA, would love to know your browsing history and interrogate you for accessing sites which they think are harmful. 

What is the easiest way to keep these threats at the bay? How do you maintain a clean browser so that nobody gets any data about you from analysing the records of the browser? It is easy, it is called private browsing. 

How to turn on private browsing? It is very simple, really. Every popular browser comes with private browsing installed. You just need to activate it. Here we would teach you about Firefox and Chrome. Other browsers have similar models as well. 

Firefox: Open Your Firefox, go to the top menu, click on File and then click on New Private Window. A new Firefox should open. Close the original Firefox and work on this new Firefox window. This new window should have a purple background, by default. 

Chrome: You can open Chrome browser and then click on the three vertical dots at the right top corner. From that menu, select New Incognito Window. Alternatively you can press Control, Shift, N keys together to open the private browsing window as well. 

Once you use Firefox Private Window or Chrome Incognito Window, whatever you do, the websites you visit, the forms you fill up or the content you enjoy, would have no records. Every record will be securely deleted once you close the window.

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