Is there a way to completely get rid of private browsing or be notified of when it was used?
I just have some people going on my computer without permission and would like to know if they are doing ilegal or bad things to my computer without me knowing it. The perfect result would be to find out what sites they have already visited and at least to have a notification that private browsing has been used. This is not a public computer so I'd love it if I could just get rid of private browsing.
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Removing or disabling "Private Browsing" will not make it impossible to delete private data like visited websites (history) or cache or cookies.
There are a lot of ways to clear such data, either via Delete browsing, search and download history on Firefox or directly by deleting the History in the Library or sidebar.
Private Browsing makes it easier because all data is kept in memory and nothing is saved to disk, so nothing needs to be removed.
If you want to see which sites have been visited then you should look at others means outside Firefox like a router or firewall with a password protected logging feature that can't be bypassed or a program like Wireshark.
- Wireshark: http://www.wireshark.org/download.html