If you have any questions, feel free to post a comment. If you find the pinning to the taskbar option convenient, you can use IE 11 for that purpose. InPrivate mode works exactly the same in both IE 11 and Edge, but Edge is the default browser in Windows 10. If you try to drag a tab down to the taskbar, nothing happens. Unfortunately, this feature is not yet available in Microsoft Edge. To keep up with this growing need, this update increases prominence of web suggestions in Internet Explorer 11 so that you can easily select an appropriate web search suggestion. Increasingly, users search the web through the Internet Explorer address bar. Now when I click on that item in my taskbar, I instantly get put into private mode and it will load up that specific site. This update also adds a new Bing search bar in the new tab page. In my example, I went to Facebook while in private mode and then dragged its tab to my taskbar. What’s nice is that it will even use the fav icon from the site in your taskbar. Instead of having to create your own custom shortcut to open an InPrivate session, just take the tab and drag it down to your taskbar. Now visit whatever page you want to have loaded whenever you open this InPrivate window. To illustrate, open IE 11 and then open a new window in InPrivate mode. In addition to enabling private mode by default, like I mentioned above, you can also take an IE 11 InPrivate session and pin it to your taskbar.

If you find yourself browsing in private mode a lot, then you might want to read my post on enabling private mode by default when opening your web browser.Īlso, check out my posts on using private mode in Google Chrome or Opera and using private mode in Firefox. In Edge, the InPrivate indicator is at the very top of the browser window as opposed to being next to the address bar like in IE 11. As with IE 11, you can also use the CTRL + SHIFT + P shortcut. Then just click on New InPrivate window and you’re good to go. That button seems to change to a new icon in each version of Windows! At the top right, go ahead and click on the new options icon that has the three dots. InPrivate Browsing in Microsoft Edgeįor Edge users, it’s one click less to get into InPrivate browsing mode. Also, toolbars and extensions are disabled too since those can sometimes track or record your history also. This includes cookies, temp files, search history, etc. You’ll also get a little message indicating what IE 11 will not store in private browsing sessions. As you can see from the screen shot below, you can also just press CTRL + SHIFT + P on your keyboard, which is way faster.Įither way, a new IE window will pop up and you’ll see the InPrivate indicator to the left of the address bar. Then click on Safety and then click on InPrivate Browsing.

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