Private Browsing Android

Many Android users use Google’s Chrome browser on their smartphone. To enable private browsing mode on Chrome, it only takes three steps:

1. Open the Chrome browser on your smartphone.
2. Tap on the three dots in the upper right corner.
3. Select “New incognito tab” – and you’re ready to go.

You can see that you have successfully activated private mode by the fact that the background is no longer light, but dark, and a small icon with a hat and glasses is visible at the top of your notification bar.

If you want to exit private browsing mode again, just pull down the bar and tap “Close all incognito tabs”.

Using another Android browser, such as Mozilla Firefox? No problem! Almost all browsers have a private browsing mode on board. For Firefox, here’s how to do it:

1. Open the Firefox browser on your smartphone.
2. Tap on the icon in the upper right corner, which looks like a Zorro mask.

Now you can surf without having your website visits saved in your browsing history. As with Google Chrome, the background is darkened once you enable the feature.

To disable the private browsing mode again, you just need to follow these two steps in Firefox:

1. Tap on the box with the number in the upper right corner to open the tab list. After that, a window with your open tabs will open.
2. Close all your open tabs and then press the square in the left part of the window.