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This article is about the awesomebar exposing bookmarks that previously were only accessible through navigating deep folder hierarchies. Porn mode has nothing t

by scotth 17y ago

This article is about the awesomebar exposing bookmarks that previously were only accessible through navigating deep folder hierarchies. Porn mode has nothing to do with this. Read the article.

pbhjpbhj 17y ago
Saying it has "nothing" to do with it is a bit extreme. What if "porn mode" (private browsing) were implemented as a password protected sub-session that allowed bookmarks to be saved, cookies kept, etc., but insulated from the standard browser use with files saved in an encrypted folder. That would also allow for a person to masquerade more easily as different users. Indeed private browsing mode could be another, hidden, user profile that happens to have encryption - if a username:password is supplied then the session is saved, if not then it's deleted on browser close.
nailer 17y ago
Porn mode has everything to do with this - yes, they're separate features, but they relate strongly to each other. Private Browsing avoids saving visited sites to history, which includes stopping them from appearing in the Awesomebar. Between 3.0 and 3.5, there was Awesomebar but no Private Browsing. So when you typed 'g' to start 'gmail.com', it might have shown 'Naked Black Girls', which appeared in your history because there was no private browsing and you forgot to manually clear the cache. The ideal would have been to introduce Private Browsing and Awesomebar at the same time, to handle this situations.
- sp332 17y ago
  You're not paying the slightest bit of attention. This is for BOOKMARKS, not history.
kqr2 17y ago
Did you read the article? The article mentions private browsing mode but doesn't provide any details. No wonder Mozilla hastily introduce a Private Browsing mode in Firefox 3.5… The above link simply provides more information on it. The "porn mode" comes from the title of the link itself.

by scotth 17y ago

This article is about the awesomebar exposing bookmarks that previously were only accessible through navigating deep folder hierarchies. Porn mode has nothing to do with this. Read the article.

pbhjpbhj 17y ago

Saying it has "nothing" to do with it is a bit extreme. What if "porn mode" (private browsing) were implemented as a password protected sub-session that allowed bookmarks to be saved, cookies kept, etc., but insulated from the standard browser use with files saved in an encrypted folder. That would also allow for a person to masquerade more easily as different users. Indeed private browsing mode could be another, hidden, user profile that happens to have encryption - if a username:password is supplied then the session is saved, if not then it's deleted on browser close.

nailer 17y ago

Porn mode has everything to do with this - yes, they're separate features, but they relate strongly to each other. Private Browsing avoids saving visited sites to history, which includes stopping them from appearing in the Awesomebar. Between 3.0 and 3.5, there was Awesomebar but no Private Browsing. So when you typed 'g' to start 'gmail.com', it might have shown 'Naked Black Girls', which appeared in your history because there was no private browsing and you forgot to manually clear the cache. The ideal would have been to introduce Private Browsing and Awesomebar at the same time, to handle this situations.

sp332 17y ago
You're not paying the slightest bit of attention. This is for BOOKMARKS, not history.

kqr2 17y ago

Did you read the article? The article mentions private browsing mode but doesn't provide any details. No wonder Mozilla hastily introduce a Private Browsing mode in Firefox 3.5… The above link simply provides more information on it. The "porn mode" comes from the title of the link itself.