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When most people think of the private browsing option in the web browser, sneakiness and having the computer not remember your usernames and passwords comes to mind.

But a much more handy application of private browsing is to use it so that your computer does remember your passwords.

Here are a few examples of how I use the private browsing function:

1. Say someone is over at my house for a visit and they want to check their email from my computer. I used to groan because that meant I had to log out of my email account so that they could log into theirs. Now we use private browsing for my convenience. I can pop the computer into private browsing mode and the computer still remembers my log in session. When my visitor is done, I can pop the browser back out of private browsing and I’m still logged in and ready to go.
2. Say I want to see what my blog or Facebook page might look like to someone other than me. Again, rather than hassling with having to log out and maybe even clear my cookies and other saved browser data or switch to another browser entirely, I can just quickly pop into private browsing mode, check what I wanted to check, and then pop back out of private browsing and go on like I never had to mess with anything.

What do you use private browsing for?

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