Can I de-activate "private browsing" so my children cannot hide their browsing sessions?

I would like to remove "Start Private Browsing" as an option on my computer. I want to have the ability to see all browsing activity that my kids might have. I don't want them to have the option to "shut off" the history-gathering feature.

And these from''' Xircal''' -
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/828454

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Hi there Rita San Diego,
You may find the information in the article below helpful.
iOS: Safari web settings
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1677
-Griff W.

Can I permanently disable private browsing

We use covenant eyes to track all internet activity on our devices, but private browsing prevents this from being 100% accurate. We can see that private browsing has been used, but we don't know what was accessed. Can we permanently disable private browsing or lock with parental controls?

see http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dickvl/Private_Browsing_disable
:to disable the Private Browsing menu entry and the Clear Recent History menu
Also see
:https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox3.1/PrivateBrowsing/SecurityReview
:https://wiki.mozilla.org/PrivateBrowsing
:http://kb.mozillazine.org/Parental_controls
:http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Privacy_and_security

Can I use the "Private browsing" mode on mobile?

Can I use the "Private browsing" mode on mobile?

Firefox for mobile does not yet have a built-in Private Browsing mode. However, you can do private browsing in a separate or temporary profile, by running "fennec -P" in the N900's Terminal app, or by using the [https://addons.mozilla.org/mobile/addon/mobile-profiles/ Mobile Profiles] add-on.

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Sorry, the developers didn't provide a switch to turn Private Browsing off. Another Firefox user has come up with a way to do it, but it requires some skill to save and install the necessary code. 
http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dickvl#Private_Browsing
http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dickvl/Private_Browsing_disable

After Firefox crashes, how do I restore a Private Browsing Session, or the tabs?

Windows XP, Ser. Pk. #3, FF Ver. 20.0.1, I think that's all of the information that would be needed . . . if not, just ask me for anything else that you need. I'm going to refrain from restarting FF, or shutting down my computer until someone replies. Hopefully that'll help. I haven't restarted my computer or FF either since the crash. But here's what happened. I was browsing, clicked on a link, and the page was loading. Then both the reg. FF window, and the Private Browsing Session window closed. Then, the box asking what you want done, because FF crashed window appeared. I chose to send all of my information to FF, the web URLs, along with my email address, [email protected], to FF, and chose the restart FF option. The main FF window appeared with the white page, and the option to disable any previous tabs in case they're the reason FF crashed with the restart previous session, or start new one. I chose to restart the previous session. My main stuff all restarted, but the private browsing window, and tabs did not. I'm hoping there's a back door way, or some other way to get into the FF files and restore that private browsing session. Perhaps there's a way to at least get access to the URLs. That's all that I really need. I'm not going to restart anything as I said above, and I'm hoping that someone will be able to help me out. Thank you in advance.

I suspect that Firefox doesn't store session history for private windows, but you could try rescuing all the sessionstore files in your currently active personal settings folder (also known as your Firefox profile folder) just in case.
Help > Troubleshooting Information > "Show Folder" button
That should take you to the critical folder. Try copying all sessionstore.js and sessionstore.bak files to a different location (e.g., Documents) where there's no danger of Firefox overwriting them.
If you check the timestamps, can you tell which one has the best chance of having your old windows and tabs? Open that one in a text editor. You may need to turn on text wrapping. If you can remember any text from the URL or title of the page you were viewing, try searching in the text to see whether you can find it. If not, the quest may be futile.

Two Firefox Private Browsing sessions are sharing data.

I launched Private Browsing Firefox session & logged in to gmail then, I launch another Private Browsing Firefox session. This time, again I visit gmail.com & I got logged in to my gmail inbox without authentication even though I am in two different Private Browsing sessions. Then, again, I launched 3rd Private Browsing Firefox session, this time I visit google.com & I can see my gmail ID on right hand top corner.
I have opted “Automatically start Firefox in Private Browsing” as I don’t want to let google search keep my search history.
It seems like Firefox do share cookies & other data in Private Browsing sessions. So how these sessions can be called Private Browsing if they are sharing data?
Note: I have tried “Start Private Browsing” manual command as well but found no difference in behavior.

Dump firefox and use the File->New Session option in Microsoft's IE browser. I am a software developer and from my personal experience I can say that firefox sucks, and is the least secure browser out there.
You'll find this out when someone hijacks your bank account after you've accessed it using firefox.

Attempting to do private browsing session froze Firefox, then won't restore one of the 2 windows I had open (with multiple tabs in each). Only 1 window is able to be restored now.

I had 2 windows open in Firefox. Each had multiple tabs open in each window. I then attempted to do private browsing session, but then a pop-up box appeared asking me something about a script (related to private browsing). This froze Firefox. So I had to close Firefox using ctrl-alt-del. I tried to re-open Firefox, but only one of the windows will restore now (with the tabs that were previously open). I clicked on "History" in the menu bar and the "Recently Closed Windows" phrase is grayed out. Is there a way to go about restoring this window? I considered doing a restore to 3 days ago in my History tab, but I am worried that this will erase all the bookmarks I've made in the past 3 days. I've also considered going manually into history and trying to forage through each, but many of these tabs have been open for about a 3-4 weeks now as I've been keeping them all open for research. So they would be buried under hundreds-thousands of other pages. (I've done a lot of browsing). Should I just call it a loss? I appreciate any help.

I removed add-on BetterPrivacy. No problems since then anymore.
Regards,
HABSBURGER

After quitting a "private browsing" session, and I quit togo back to previously open tabs/pinned sites, 40% of the time, the Browser does not restore all previously open tabs/pinned apps/sites

Using HP Pavilion Dv7 with Windows Home Premium, 64bit, and only now and then will FF4.0.1 restore previous (normal) session after returning from a private browsing session, )I use the Quit Private Browsing menu item from the Toolbar right-click menu to go back).... In addition, previously Pinned sites (apps) are lost also, and all must be re-added.
Inconsistent failure and I've not been able to reliably reproduce-- sometimes (about 4-6 times in 10) it just loses all previous information.

I would add that bookmarks may be organised into folders and subfolders. You may wish to make more use of bookmarks if only to ensure you do not loose everything if your session restore becomes problematic.
Bookmarks are a bit more robust than the session restore system. Firefox backs them up automatically and you may do so manually. Possibly Firefox will behave better and faster with hundreds of bookmarks but only tens of tabs open. There is also the tabs groups, but that is something I think development has ceased on and may have similar issues to session restore / or open tabs.
* [[How to use bookmarks to save and organize your favorite websites]]
** [[Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another computer]]
** [[Use bookmark folders to organize your bookmarks]]
*[[Use Tab Groups to organize a lot of tabs]]

How to know the sites list that are browsed during "Private browsing" session?

It'd be better for me to learn the history of "Private browsing" session.

No history is stored by Firefox whilst using private browsing.

How do I prevent old tabs from restoring when firefox is closed during a private browsing session

OK, if I'm in a private browsing session and completely close FF (without first ending private browsing), the next time that I start it, the tabs that were open prior to starting private browsing are restored. I have it set to open my home page (yahoo) when starting Firefox.
How do I change this?

It sounds as though Firefox is treating it as a "crash" when you don't return to non-private browsing before shutting down. I don't know whether there is a way to change that: nothing in the browser.sessionstore.* preferences jumps out at me as controlling that behavior.

How do I enable plugins during Private Browsing sessions?

I sometimes use Private Browsing. However, I noticed that when Private Browsing is enabled, plugins are disabled. I assume this is because some of the plugins maintain personal data, so Firefox cannot guarantee that the plugins will not store personal data during the Private Browsing session.
Still, I want to enable plugins during Private Browsing and I accept the risks involved. But I have not yet figured out how to enable plugins during Private Browsing.
How do I do enable plugins during Private Browsing?
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== since Private Browsing was built into Firefox

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Private+Browsing
The disabling of '''''plugins''''' isn't a feature of Private Browsing, what indication do you have that ''something'' is disabled?
Or, are you talking about certain '''''extensions''''' or their features being disabled??
That shouldn't happen either, unless a particular extension uses or extends the features in Firefox that are disabled in Private Browsing mode. I imagine that an extension that deals with Passwords, any type of History ''(like Download List, Forms, or Search)'', visited pages ''(browsing history)'', the Cache, or Cookies isn't going to work as it would in the "normal browsing" mode.

I just noticed Private browing option, has this been downloaded or automatically added? I dont want my kids up to no good, as how can i check what they're looking at? Can you delete the private browser?

Can you delete the private brower option

That has been a feature in Firefox since Firefox 3.5 was released in June, 2009, it's not '''new'''.
Sorry, that feature can't be "removed" without breaking a security part of Firefox, and the developers didn't provide a "switch" to allow parents to turn it off. What's even worse it that there is a Bug filed to disable Private Browsing when the Parental Control's that are built into Windows Vista and Windows 7 are turned on. Nothing has been done to fix that Bug in almost 2 years since that Bug was originally filed. 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471658 
Hell, there hasn't even been a comment posted in that Bug in almost 7 months. I have done everything I can do as a support helper to make the developers aware of how important this Bug is for parents, based upon parental feedback here - that has been accepted as ''' "Thanks .... So it's on average 2 requests for this per week." '''
In all honesty though, even if that Bug is fixed a child can just delete their browsing history in any browser quite easily; sure you'll see that it has been deleted, but you still won't know where they have been. You really need to install some Parental Controls on that PC that tracks the web sites that are being visited outside of a web browser, and can only be accessed with a password.
I don't have any recommendations for that type of software, as I haven't needed it myself. Never had any children, and if I did even my grand-children would probably be old enough not to need monitoring like that.

Use yahoo mail ,turn private browsing off.go to setting ;safari turn off. I go into safari but I can't get the private browsing icon! Pls adv

Hi I need help! I can login in my yahoo. My iPad appear " please turn Private Browsing off. Please go to Setting " Safari " Private Browsing and turn it off.
I go to safari but I can get the private browsing icon! Pls adv

Make sure Private Browsing is off.
Tap "Private" on Safari Screen to disable Private Browsing. When top of screen is white, Private Browsing is off.

Can we remove Start Private Browsing from Tool list, but use Ctlr + Shift + P instead?

Is it possible to move the word "Start Private Browsing" from the Tool List because it can create suspect or accuse to use it, I prefer to have it dissect like using the keyboard (use Ctlr + Shift + P) to start private browsing.

You can modify the appearance of Firefox via two customization files.
The customization files userChrome.css for the user interface and userContent.css for websites are located in the chrome folder in the user profile folder, but aren't there by default. 
You may need to create the chrome folder and the userChrome.css (the names are case sensitive). 
Make sure to use a plain text editor like Notepad.exe and make sure to have all files selected when you save the file as userChrome.css to avoid that the editor appends a .txt file extension (userChrome.css.txt).
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Editing_configuration/Troubleshooting
You can use this button to go to the Firefox profile folder:
*Help > Troubleshooting Information > Profile Directory: Open Containing Folder

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