{"id":174,"date":"2012-09-26T11:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:03:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:03:18","slug":"private-browsing-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/private-browsing-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Browsing and You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, it&#8217;s your resident Private Browsing developer here! I&#8217;ll state it up front &#8211; the release of 15.0.1 was triggered by code I wrote that broke private browsing mode in significant, privacy-affecting ways. <a href=\"http:\/\/ehsanakhgari.org\/\">Ehsan<\/a> and I fixed that for 15, 16, and 17 by backing out the problem code completely, but we&#8217;ve been working hard to fix it properly in Firefox 18 (currently in Nightly). This means that we want YOUR help to ensure that we haven&#8217;t subtly broken private browsing mode in nightly, and here&#8217;s how you can do that:<\/p>\n<p>Take some time every day to clear your disk cache, then put your browser into private browsing mode. If you want to use it for traditionally-private things, that&#8217;s cool, it just may be slightly more embarrassing to thoroughly report bugs you encounter. What would be very helpful is if you could spend some time using your browser for regular, non-private things, and every so often open up <a href=\"about:cache\">about:cache<\/a> and look through the entries in your disk cache. If you see <i>any entry<\/i> that looks like it came from one of the sites you were visiting, file a bug and CC :jdm and :ehsan. In fact, I will even accept comments on this post, or IRC pings, or emails, or whatever &#8211; these are important privacy failures that need to be addressed before FF 18 goes out the door. Do your part to make it unremarkable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, it&#8217;s your resident Private Browsing developer here! I&#8217;ll state it up front &#8211; the release of 15.0.1 was triggered by code I wrote that broke private browsing mode in significant, privacy-affecting ways. Ehsan and I fixed that for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/private-browsing-and-you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshmatthews.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}