It looks like the original justification for this is somewhat less now, since Firefox 4 and later *mostly* fix the CSS history leak. They don't eliminate all possibilities, there are some options if you know what url you are looking for, but probing hundreds of editions via javascript or image loading doesn't work.
Having said that, it does make sense to launch the browser in privacy mode if possible. E.g. to prevent history being written at all. Going to privacy mode manually saves all tabs, and they can be got back by manually exiting privacy mode or restarting the browser. Also, firefox -privacy <url> for me on ff5 on windows just opens another tab, without using privacy mode. Much the same as (some older versions of?) Chrome. The bug reporter was using 3.6. All this changes things somewhat. See the bug: https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=5209 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20110711/37b30553/attachment.pgp>
