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Keep web sites out of your Firefox history with HistoryBlock
Have a guilty pleasure on the internet? Don't want your friends knowing that you've been spending time reading up on celebrity gossip at TMZ, looking at adorable pictures of bunnies at Cute Overload, or umm, you know, other sites? HistoryBlock is a Firefox extension that lets you create a blacklist of sites that will never show up in your browser history. Now, you're not going to want to get carried away here. It's actually handy to have some of your most frequently visited sites in your history, as Firefox will make it much easier to find these sites in the future. For instance, when I type just the letter "d" into my location bar, Download Squad is the first option that pops up, and that wouldn't happen if Firefox weren't tracking my usage of the site.
While HistoryBlock will keep pages out of your history tab, recently closed list, and download manager, it won't necessarily prevent any and all cookies and other data from being saved. For that, you'll probably want to use the private browsing mode in Firefox or another web browser.
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Sushi Cat is one of the cutest Flash games I've ever run across. You play a blue cat with a major talent for eating and, fortunately for you, every level is filled with delicious sushi! The controls are simple: you aim and drop from the top of the screen using the mouse, trying to hit as much sushi as you can on the way down. Eat enough sushi, and you can go on to the next level.
Your score depends on how much sushi you eat, and which bucket the cat lands in when it finally reaches the bottom of the screen. The more ...
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panoptican said 5:18PM on 7-09-2009
Which begs the question, why would you not just use the built-in private browsing feature if you're worried about certain things appearing in your history?
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Mark said 12:24PM on 7-10-2009
So then a person can just open this and see all the sites you don't want anyone to know you visit? You'd be ahead to just clear your history, or use that nifty new private browsing feature.
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