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A lot of people know what incognito mode (or private mode) is at some basic level. They should use it when they want to do something "private" on the web. But I think most people don't actually understand what it means and how/why to use it. Perhaps this will help. Before we start - cookies are little bits of data used to track you between page loads. Think of it like a fingerprint. They're extremely important for session handling, so that a site can remember who you are from one page to the next. But they're also really handy for things like advertising services to track your activity on the web. When you open a new incognito window (and don't have one open already) - you're starting a new session in your web browser that doesn't have any of the cookies or caching that your "normal" browser window has. In practical terms, this means that when you visit a site, they won't have any history of you (mostly) and you may need to relogin, ...

Been messing around a bit with the new Mozilla beta browser, Minefield - and finding it a lot better than google chrome. For one thing, I've been getting weird problems in google chrome, as I'd mentioned text entry boxes (textarea) are messed, and there seems to be problems with Flash not playing. I haven't had any of those problems with Minefield. Plus it's at least as fast as Chrome. And while most extensions don't work with it yet, it's pretty much certain that they will once it's released. Still no word on extensions on Chrome. And IE? Only the clueless still use that lame pos.... too bad there's so many clueless users out there!

I figured I'd join in all the Chrome posts. Why not? I've been messing with it a little. First, I like the speed, and mostly like the interface. The lack of a search box is a little off-putting at first, but I'll get used to using the location bar for that. It has some neat little features like the task manager and 'inspect element' capability built-in. The "Create application shortcut" functionality is pretty handy as well. Some problems I've noticed - for one I had some weird issues entering text into a text box after I'd resized it. You may have noticed text boxes have little "grab" areas at the lower right that let you resize them... Which is a great idea, but after using it I had problems with characters and lines of text I typed getting messed up, disappearing, etc. I also had a problem with a site I had chrome remember passwords for - it did so, but when I was using the admin back-end of the site to edit user accounts, it would mis...