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I was able to disable Private Window options that appear in menus and buttons by locating the right controls in browser.xul and adding the disabled="true" attribute to each tag. I was also able to prevent about:privatebrowsing from being used for this purpose by doing something similar to aboutPrivateBrowsing.xhtml, but I still had the New Private Window task in my jump list. The only way I saw to eliminate that option was to completely disable the task list by setting browser.taskbar.lists.tasks.enabled to false. Then after finding and deleting the appropriate jumplist file from Windows' CustomDestinations folder, I now didn't have New Tab or New Window, either. These are a lot of hoops to jump through! We need a better way: give us an about:config option called browser.privatebrowsing.enabled with a default value of true, which when set to false would disable the entry point to the Private Browsing mode, even for the taskbar jumplist.

I'm trying to decide which browser I should use as my primary browser. I know that most of the people here will say Firefox, but I'd like to hear a more detailed explanation on why. Thanks!

hi, i'm using ff 20.0.1, and moving to v.21. never could find written instructions in v.20 about how to turn off pvt. browsing. a helpful forum member showed me how, by clicking on orange ff icon at top right of screen.

how do i turn on and turn off private browsing function in v.21?

windows xp pro, sp3, lenovo x201 laptop, [comcast wireless, no complains about it]

thanks

My mother was having problems with her computer on the Internet and had to reset the modem. Problem was, I was on the Internet at the time using Twitter. She reset the modem, I thought everything was okay, but now Firefox isn't letting me access Twitter at all because of the security certificate. Here's the error message:

This Connection is Untrusted

         You have asked Firefox to connect

securely to twitter.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.

         Normally, when you try to connect securely,

sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.

         What Should I Do?
         
           If you usually connect to

this site without problems, this error could mean that someone is trying to impersonate the site, and you shouldn't continue.

twitter.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is not trusted because the issuer certificate is not trusted. The certificate is only valid for gateway.2wire.net

(Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)

gatway.2wire.net is the default error page for my modem, if the Internet is not working at all. I think the problem here is that now Firefox thinks the legitimate site for Twitter is the error page and not, well, Twitter.com. Also, I'm not getting any "add exception" option. How do I fix this?

Hi I install Firefox 20.0.1

I try to use -private-toggle from

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-private-toggle

and it is not working. I try

firefox-path.exe -private-toggle url1 url2

In firefox 19 this was working.

Thanks

When I type a password into a web page, the display shows circles instead of the typed characters. This seems to be an industry standard. How can I disable this feature so I can see the characters I have typed?

This "Untrusted Connection" thing is god-damned annoying. Websites that I've been using for YEARS... all of a sudden are "untrusted." I don't ***-**** care. How do I turn this feature off?

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My Firefox was working fine, and now I just changed the settings (History) to delete all the data once, I closed the browser as default and installed LinkExtend, WOT and SecretAgent plugins, and Firefox is showing me an error message. I have reset the settings back and disabled the extensions, but still its showing an alert message for each page load(atleast once it'll show for each page load, sometimes it may exceed to 2 (or) 3. Here, I've given the link for my problem : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/76460759/Firefox_Error.png . Any here suggest me how to solve this issue.

I am running Firefox 19.0.2 on Windows XP (SP3). As a part of my KASPERSKY INTERNET Security 2013 the following add-ons (all version 13.0.1.4250) are installed (a) Kaspersky URL Advisor (b) Content Blocker (c) Safe money and (d) Virtual keyboard . They were all enabled and active when the KIS was installed on 17-2-2013 but a subsequent update of Firefox has disabled them all. I want that Firefox should update itself only if all the existing add-ons are compatible with it, else the existing version should continue unchanged. How do I achieve this? What is the last version of Firefox that is compatible with these add-ons?

I noticed that as of today, every now and then, a drop down commercial ad (with voice) appears on my FF browser screen. This has never happened before. I've run a Windows Defender, and Microsoft Safety Scan. The problem continues.

Greetings! I've downloaded a program and here was some virus, now i alway have this page http://searchiu.com/?affil=141 as a start page and i'm afraid of my security. Can you help to remove this virus and get back my start page? Thanks you!

I am currently using Firefox 21. Since the 19, the "clear history" function in Firefox history menu has disappeared. So no way to click on it and clear history as desired, last hour...or everything. I have uninstalled and re-installed the browser several times no change. Only way to clear history is by deleting manually on the left side of the window after doing Ctrl+H. Is there any way to fix the browser?

This past few days syncing of both my desktops simply is not working. When I go to history it only shows the history of the computer I currently work on. In Sync options on both computers everything is set and ok. All of this worked until last Friday the 17th. So please either help solving this issue either tell me what to do.

Thanks, Andrej