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Browsing tips to not make SO suspicious
Wii 4403 reads
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Here's a good tip: use a second browser (that your SO doesn't know about) that you use exclusively for visiting hobbying websites.  

Firefox and Opera are two good choices.  Google them.  When installing, do not choose to place a shortcut on the desktop or the quicklaunch area.  Keep it discretely hidden away in the start menu.

Both of these programs allow you to clean up all evidence of your browsing on exit.

To do this in Firefox:

1) Select Options from the Tools menu
2) Click on the "Settings..." button
3) check all the checkboxes under the "Private Data" section
4) check the "clear private data when closing Firefox" box and make sure the "ask me before clearing private data" box is unchecked.
5) click OK to save your changes

For Opera:
1) choose the Preferences option from the Tools menu
2) click on the "Wand" tab and uncheck "let the wand rememeber passwords"
3) Click on the "Advanced" tab
4) Choose "History" and change the field values for "typed in addresses" and "visited addresses" to 0.  Check the "empty on exit" checkbox under the disk cache field.
5) Choose "Cookies" and check "Delete new cookies when exiting Opera"

* edit: 6) forgot to mention, also change the "Startup" field in the General tab to "Start with no pages" or "Start with home page" and edit the home page to something innocuous.

7) click OK to save changes

Now all you have to remember is to exit the program.  All traces of your visits will have been eliminated, if your SO ever even finds out about the application.

-- Modified on 5/17/2006 3:15:02 PM

-- Modified on 5/17/2006 3:16:36 PM

MitchRapp1617 reads

I searched for an agency ONCE in MSN Beta
and it's like my Frigging HOME PAGE every
time I go to MSN !!  T.G.  my SO is still
an AOL-head !

Stopzilla can be set upon shutdown to clear cookies, browser history, temp files, cache, recent docs and trash. Also it is first rate adware/spyware, anti-popup software.

D.I.V.o.R.C.E Court.  It is called "Divorce Decree" and is available in most states at your friendly local County Courthouse.  "Divorce Decree" comes with a new residence complete, most of the time, with high speed internet access and a place to put your stereo for serious music listening.  It also has built in a feature that permits browsing at all times of day and night without the dreaded honeydo interference.  I know since I obtained this product my internet browsing has improved 100 percent, I can watch sports, get copies of the episodes that I missed of my favorite TV shows, and work from home.  While not so simple to install, this product will last a lifetime as long as you do not plug your unit into the 1 gigawatt remarriage socket.  But that is clearly marked with a black diamond so you are probably safe there.  Even a "Tedious maggot" can follow that instruction.  I have also found it handy since I no longer have to disguise my greeness and can enjoy the others who are green.

The feature that I like most about this product is that I no longer have to shut my computer off, reducing or eliminating that pesky boot up time... also I have no need for a panic button.

This product is not free, in some jurisdiction it will cost you your first born male child and a hefty up-front payment.  You will also wish to pay the monthly maintenance fee, as if you do not, the provider of this product will take infringement of the contract seriously and prosecute.  In short, failure to pay the maintenance fee may well result in jail time.

Should you experience the alternative "feature" of jail time, you may make new friends in their friendly "chat room" also know as "the yard."  There you will become acquainted with the chat room monitor named "Bubba."  Bubba is not quite as friendly and tolerant as Thirsty but may offer services that "Girl next Door" has yet to provide for us tireless maggots.

So please, take my advice and consider this handy dandy addition to your software library.

hee hee!



-- Modified on 5/18/2006 10:19:40 AM

If you do any copy and paste (e.g. a providers phone number, website, etc.) don't forget to clear the clipboard by copying some other innocuous text at the end.  You can do all the right things to detox your browser session but the next time someone clicks "paste" in Word or Google, etc... there is the last text you copied.   "Hmmm, I wonder what that phone number is?"

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