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Re:The Browser Monopoly by guardian5x on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:19AM (#20757398)
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_browsing Safari came first, but Chrome was before Opera or Firefox.
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Re:The Browser Monopoly by jcranmer on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @11:21AM (#20758058)
The Firefox 3-4 era is the era of the interminably long betas for Firefox. The private browsing feature was committed to Firefox trunk on 2008-11-04, long before the 2009-06-30 release date given on that Wikipedia page. The bug for Firefox was filed 2004-06-28, long before Chrome was a thing.

(Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=248970).

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Re:The Browser Monopoly by basch on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:21AM (#20757421)
I credited it to Safari
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Re:The Browser Monopoly by psychrometer on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @01:54PM (#20759582)
But you also said that Opera and Firefox had private browsing before Chrome which is not true.
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Re:The Browser Monopoly by basch on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @05:41PM (#20762144)
>for in private browsing and tabs? (Safari and Opera respectively.

Respectively. Meaning private=safari, tabs=opera.

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