Private web browsing
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There may be some reasons that you don't want someone to see what web sites you've been visiting. For example, your wife's birthday is coming up and you want to do research on jewelry, but you don't want the surprised ruined by her seeing the jewelry web sites you've been visiting.
A new feature added to Internet Explorer 8 (also available in FireFox) is called InPrivate Browsing. This allows you to open an IE window and it doesn't track the history, cookies, or anything about the jewelry sites you just visited.
To launch an InPrivate Browsing window within IE8, select InPrivate Browsing from the Tools menu. A new browser window will appear and it will indicate that "InPrivate is turned on".
On the flip side, parents might be concerned about this feature and that their kids could use it to go to sites that they don't what them to go to. As with anything, there is always the good and not so good side and having proper parental controls in place is important.