Comments on: Taking IE8 Beta 2 for a Test Drive, Part 1: “Porn Mode” (a.k.a. InPrivate Browsing)

By: My Half-a-versary — Global Nerdy

My Half-a-versary — Global Nerdy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:57:28 +0000

[...] been free to inject my offbeat, earthy sense of humour into my work, from celebrating InPrivate Browsing in Internet Explorer 8 to the time I made Bob Muglia – then a Senior VP, now President of the Server and Tools division [...]

By: joey

joey — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:54:13 +0000

@R.K. Bakshi: You might want to check to see if the installation worked by checking Internet Explorer's version. You can do this by selecting "About Internet Explorer" from the Help menu:

A window with IE's version info should pop up and look like this:

There should be some text stating that you're looking at Beta 2.

By: R.K. Bakshi

R.K. Bakshi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:30:32 +0000

Hi
I’ve just installed IE8 Beta2 under Vista. But there is no “InPrivate Browsing” option uner Safety Menu. When I press Ctrl+Shift+P nothing happens. Tried opening a new tab and clicked Start InPrivate Browsing, again nothing happens. What could be the reason?

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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:46:34 +0000

[...] Over at Global Nerdy, I review its most-snickered-about feature, InPrivate Browsing, which lets you surf the web without leaving a trail on your own computer. For obvious reasons, the tech press — and let’s face it, me — like to refer to it by the colloquial name of “Porn Mode”. [...]