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    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2013</years>
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    <desc>What is <em>incognito</em> mode?</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Private browsing</title>

  <comment>
    <cite date="2013-06-30">Kat</cite>
    <p>Private browsing does not allow websites access to normal mode cookies
    and does not save cookies from the private browsing session, while allowing
    read-only access to the normal history. This page is aimed at people who do
    not know what a cookie is.</p>
  </comment>

  <p>Private browsing is a mode which limits the way that your computer and
  websites can access your browsing information. It is useful if you want to
  lend your computer to a friend, for example, to check their email using
  webmail because you will not be logged into any websites in the private
  browsing window, nor will their information be saved. You might prefer
  to use incognito mode to access sensitive websites such as Internet banking
  and <link href="http://questionablecontent.net/">questionable content</link>
  because data that websites have previously saved on your computer will not
  be accessible to the websites when browsing in incognito mode.</p>

  <note style="important">
    <p>Incognito mode will not stop websites from tracking your browsing
    activity. If you need to browse the web anonymously, you should use a
    commercial VPN service.</p>
  </note>

  <steps>
    <title></title>
    <item>
      <p>Open the menu at the top-right of the window and select
      <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">New Incognito Window</gui></guiseq>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Browse the web using incognito mode.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>End the private browsing session by closing the incognito window.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <p>You can distinguish private browsing from normal browsing by the
  watermark for the incognito window:</p>

  <figure>
    <media type="image" mime="image/png" src="media/private-browsing-3-12.png">
      <p>Fullscreen screenshot showing a normal session in a window on the left
      side of the screen and a private browsing session in a different window
      on the right side of the screen.</p>
    </media>
    <p>A screenshot showing a normal session with some history in the left
    window and a private browsing session in the right window</p>
  </figure>

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