Anonymous web browsing-For Pc

Anonymous web browsing-For Pc

You may believe that all your Web surfing activities are anonymous or safe, but a great deal of information is being transferred to and from the websites you browse every time on the internet.

After you close your browser, the history of all the sites you’ve visited is stored on the computer and you may not be aware that most of the websites keep logs of visitors IP addresses and other data.

If you wish to make your web browsing anonymous, most of the browsers offer secure and safe browsing modes to its users when they surf the internet.

Follow the steps below to activate anonymous web browsing feature in major web browsers:

Internet Explorer

• Open Internet Explorer – and Go to the “Tools” menu. Select the option “InPrivate Browsing” to open a new window that activates this secure browsing feature. The keyboard shortcut for this feature is – press “Ctrl+Shift+P” on the keyboard to launch the InPrivate browsing window. Or you can right-click on the Internet Explorer icon in your taskbar and select the “InPrivate Browsing” option from the menu.
• Now you can browse the internet as you normally do. If you are visiting websites where you have accounts, you need to log manually at all those sites because InPrivate browsing mode will not allow the system to store any of your account information. On the other hand, if you are not using InPrivate browsing mode, your login information is stored.
• After you are finished with browsing you can close the InPrivate browsing. You should not have any content you want to save in the tabs as all information will be lost when you close the window.

Mozilla Firefox

• Start Firefox and click the “Firefox” button on the upper left corner of the window. Select the “Private Browsing” option from there. Keyboard shortcut for this is – Ctrl+Shift+P to start the private browsing session.
• You need to select “Start Private Browsing” button to begin anonymous web browsing session. If you have any tabs open they will be saved and closed. This allows you to recover the current browsing session once you are finished with private internet browsing. The color of the “Firefox” button will change to purple to indicate that private browsing is activated.
• Browse as you normally do, just keep in mind that no user data or your preferences will be saved or loaded from previous sessions. Press “Ctrl+Shift+P” and Select “Stop Private Browsing” option to return to standard browsing mode. This will reload your previously saved internet session.

Google Chrome

• If you are using Google Chrome, launch Chrome and select the “Wrench” icon to open the options menu. Click on the “New Incognito Window” to start Chrome’s Incognito Mode. This will open a new window with an Incognito Mode icon that looks like a man in a trench coat. The keyboard shortcut is “Ctrl+Shift+N” while you are in the Chrome browser.
• Just browse the internet normally. No user data and preferences will be saved and loaded from the previous session when you are in anonymous web browsing mode.
• To end the private browsing session, close the Incognito Mode window. All cookies or account details of your browsing session will be deleted when you close the window.

Here are other options available to browse the web anonymously:

• There is a browser called TOR that is designed specifically for masking the IP addresses. The Anonymizer.com website routes the browser traffic through its own servers to hide the IP address or other information.

• Firefox has various plugins that can perform this task. You can install the plugins For TOR and Ultrasurf if you are using Firefox for internet browsing. Ultrasurf is also available for Internet Explorer users. If you are a Chrome user, you can install the TOR Button plugin, that will add a toggle button to the browser to turn anonymous web browsing on or off.

• You can manually delete all cookies, history of sites, temporary files and other data using the “Options” menu and selecting “Preferences” feature of your browser. Turn on the never remember password option in the browser.

• Turn off the “third party” cookies to minimize the data stored when you surf the Web. Cookies on your computer can be used by other websites for advertising or other purposes.