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- NJank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+78ummm... it's an IE wrapper. not a new browser. IT is 264K. MEM usage = IE usage + overhead.
- Odiwan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+46And a false advertisement, at that. It does leave traces.
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ANewPrivateBrowserIMeanBrowzarDoesNotWorkAsAdvertised.aspx - altherac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40This is just another pointless IE wrapper that presents itself as a "new browser".
- shakin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37@hyped83
If it's for porn then the last thing you want is an IE-based browser like this. Just imagine all the malware you'll have after a while! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36Thanks for that very thorough advertisement...
- techietim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28"You will need a PC running a minimum of Windows 98 Second Edition (SE), with a minimum of Explorer (IE) 5.5."
Humm, powered by IE. - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20You people are doing this the hard way. I just adjusted my sense of lust. Now I'm turned on by spyware and I get my rocks off every time I double click that blue E.
Oh, Bonzi Buddy, recommend an online pharmacy so that I can get us some marital aides!!! - airstrike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19ctrl+shift+delete works great
- surfit, on 10/12/2007, -8/+24Firefox 2 beta is way better than 1.5... so far I have not had a memory problem, whilst before 1.5 would take my PC down several times per day, it was quite horrible.
- rocke86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Steather is a great firefox extension that does this. Just push a button and it disables tracking features of ff. Perfect for those times you want to do "off the record" browsing.
http://www.zadet.net/stealther.html - realfinkployd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10A wrapper for IE. So I'm willing to bet that your URL history is still written into to the hidden, undeletable files called index.dat that are scattered across your hard drive.
- tofuoni, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13For porn, you want a VM. I ran into a website the other day that crashed firefox (yes, firefox) and then an icon showed up on the desktop named "Kill and Clean" and I started getting popups. Thank god I was in a VM. I restored from a backup and ran etherial on the host and went back to the site, so now I've got a record of how they did it.
- Kaioshin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Safari has an option called "Private Browsing" that does this.
FireFox has extensions that do that.
I find it funny how it claims that OS X and Linux versions are coming soon if it's based on IE (Most likely it will just use KHTML and WebCore or something). - swany1012, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13AKA - Pornzar
- blackmariah, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Anyone else use the search box? It takes you to Browzar's own search engine that, not coincidentally, is practically nothing but sponsored links.
1. Write yet another IE wrapper (although I like how this one looks)
2. Set up sponsored ads in your own search engine
3. Send all searches from your browser through said search engine
4. Post browser announcement on tech news sites
5. Profit - hyped83, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Uhh, this is obviously meant to view porn so my wife doesn't catch me. How many times do you look at the same picture at pornstargals.com? Come on, this rules.
- vbsurfer, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12browzar is a dumb name anyways.
- MasterRux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8That's what I've been doing for quite some time now. I see no advantages to this browzar thing. Firefox on a usb stick where ever I go. Even with all my favorite extensions.
- Somniis, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11This isn't exactly a fast browser.
I've downloaded it and it does what it says it does. However, when loading sites (like digg) - it takes much longer to load simply because of all the graphical elements to the site. Since it does not store anything, like other browsers, it cannot load the images fast from the HD.
Memory usage - it uses more than IE. I'm not sure about Mozilla or Opera, but I once had around 60MB of memory used by Browzar (in fact, it is about 37mb used now while typing this). Numerous websites will not load. I went to shoutwire.com, and everytime it loads the website for a second or so before defaulting back to the main Browzar homepage (which you cannot change).
Test it out and see for yourselves. - Llan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Yes, it is really shocking how companies that release free software are looking for ways to make money.
What are they up to? Pay their people? Bastards!! - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Anyone read the "embarassing stories?"
http://www.browzar.com/stories/index.html
This is a seriously homophobic company. There are no less than five stories that run along the same lines as "Imagine my horror when I see 'Hunks' and 'men' in the auto-complete box."
If I wasn't already turned off by the lame attempt to market an IE wrapper as a "new browser" or the stupidity of thinking people would be unable to turn off the history in their own browser, yet able to find this one, then the frat-boy idiocy of the site itself would be enough for me to avoid them.
Lame. - Krutch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Anyone read the license agreement?
"However, Browzar cannot guarantee that the Browzar software will be free from bugs, errors, viruses, worms, Trojan horses or other damaging code, or that it will be suitable for your purposes." - MixedSpleens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Belive me joel, ive met just as many guys who are complete ***** when it comes to picking a browser, clearing their cache, etc... The audience for tech news might be male skewed but people who know nothing about browsers is pretty even.
- Hurricane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7There are ways to configure Firefox to not use any disk cache, additionally there are some experiments in modified versions of FF that can run from USB without any traces or installation.
Basicly Firefox has already been there and done that.
False advertisement, no digg, this needs blamed. - khalidur2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"ctrl+shift+delete works great"
not really cos in doing so, my bro notices the lack of history and KNOW that i have been jerking off, so the only option available to me right now is to manually go through my history deleting everything potrn related.
does anyone know of any extensions which when activated stops any sites entering your history? acesible via a button on the toolbar. - timophy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Opera one-use http://www.kejut.com/operaportable And it writes over all files it deletes when you close it.
- tryferos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5tofuoni is right, the best way is to use a VM for all internet browsing. I use VMWare workstation because they have a better way to go back to a clean VM, all you need to do is use the "revert" function to revert back to your clean VM image. It takes all of about a minute and poof spyware, history, cache, cookies, etc. are all gone forever.
- b3tty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Um yeah, I'll stick with my "Private Browsing" feature in Shiira/Safari...
- StuPC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Or you could have Portable Opera on a USB stick with cache set to 0MB...
- janih, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index.dat - CactusBastard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5According to Hanselman at: http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ANewPrivateBrowserIMeanBrowzarDoesNotWorkAsAdvertised.aspx
This doesn't prevent IE from writing cookies, history, etc, it just deletes them afterwards. This is a major difference as any undelete utility will bring it right back. - lidflipper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I tried it. It does what it says but there are plug-ins for firefox that work just as well.
- chess007, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"wonder how long it will take before someone checks out Gecko from the Mozilla repos and makes an extremely lightweight version of Firefox."
Kmeleon = fastest web browser i've ever used.
"K-Meleon - The Browser You Control
K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser for the win32 (Windows) platform based on the Gecko layout engine (the rendering engine of Mozilla). K-Meleon is free, open source software released under the GNU General Public License."
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/ - xanik266, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Dugg down... Every time I use IE, in any form, I feel I need to give my computer a shot of some kind... "Wrappers" are NOT new browsers, only new wrappers. And, it seems, this wrapper is only trying to gain control of IE so the company can use it's own search engine and make money.
- CanuckMakem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I agree that Stealther for Firefox is the best option.
- josefresco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6No installation? Has options to erase your tracks when you're done? Been there done that.
Firefox Portable 2.0 Beta 2: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
Of, if you're really paranoid; TorPark: http://torpark.nfshost.com/ - bjejoh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Opera has "delete private data", cache can be set to 0, history can be set to 0, cookies to "never", "delete cookies when exiting" if you need during browsing.
I don't need another browser. - OpticalLiam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The stories are pretty funny, if they are real.
http://www.browzar.com/stories/index.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.kejut.com/operaportable
if you want to have a browser to search with no traces just use the opera portable. Has features of all modern browsers + extra and its deamed the fastest browser.
When browing normally use what ever you like , firefox, opera ect... - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Llan - this is a venture from a billionaire in the UK who is just looking for another big idea to cash in on. If it were worthwhile, it would be open-source. As it is, it's just a cynical ploy aimed at porn surfers who don't know how to run Portable Firefox.
- DigiShaman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Try Off By One. http://offbyone.com/offbyone
"The Off By One Web Browser may be the world's smallest and fastest web browser with full HTML 3.2 support. It is a completely self-contained, stand-alone 1.2 MB application with no dependencies on any other browser or browser component. For Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Windows XP." - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3From CIO Tech Informer:
http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?ID=1702
"Browzar is the brainchild of Ajaz Ahmed, the man behind Freeserve, the first U.K. ISP to offer free Internet access to customers in the late 1990s. He sold Freeserve—which quickly became the United Kingdom’s largest ISP—to France Telecom’s Wanadoo operation in 2001 for 1.6 billion pounds (US$3 billion).
Ahmed has formed a private company, Browzar, based in Huddersfield in the United Kingdom, which he is fully funding, to help support and market the new browser. He’s also hoping interest in Browzar will be driven by word of mouth and the Internet to achieve the kind of ubiquity enjoyed by the likes of Skype, MySpace and YouTube.
Browzar includes a search engine, and the startup will generate money through revenue-sharing deals with search engine providers. Initially, the relationship is with Yahoo’s Overture advertising sales subsidiary, but Ahmed plans to set up additional partnerships with other search companies over time to give users a choice of search engines."
So keep spreading this through "word of mouth" so Ajaz Ahmed can make another few billion dollars off his next venture. - LilGator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think this might just be an IE-wrapper...
- chess007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"I wonder how long it will take before someone checks out Gecko from the Mozilla repos and makes an extremely lightweight version of Firefox."
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/
Its the fastest browser i've ever used. :) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's the standard disclaimer.
I consider them junk, but not for that reason. - janspambox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3inaccurate. it uses IE, IE writes the cache.
- flubba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3LOL! you ppl are tarded.
this is an adware browser.
its badware.
wow... - Pekay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If these extensions and the portability of Firefox means you can do just the same as Browzar. Why use browzar? I hate IE ;p.
- olkansepp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Browzar is leaving local footprints:
http://digg.com/software/Privacy_browser_Browzar_is_leaving_local_footprints - berberrama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Who's the idiot that posted this story? This bowser is a spam scam! Research things before you post them! --> http://web3.0log.org/2006/09/01/new-secure-browser-browzar-is-fake-and-full-of-adware/
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