Privacy settings
This preferences page provides Pale Moon settings for
tracking signals, cookies and browsing history.
Tracking
Most major websites track their visitors' behavior and then
sell or provide that information to other companies. This information
can be used to show ads, products or services specifically targeted to
you. Pale Moon has a Do Not Track feature that lets
you tell every website you visit, their advertisers, and content
providers that you don't want your browsing behavior tracked.
Honoring this setting is voluntary - individual websites are
not (yet) legally required to respect it. The setting is an official
way of letting your wishes be known to visited websites but does not
block or remove tracking, nor does it enforce your wishes.
Websites that do
honor this setting should automatically stop tracking your behavior
without any further action from you. Turning on this feature will not
affect your ability to log in to websites nor cause Pale Moon to forget
your private information, such as the contents of shopping carts,
location information or login information.
History
These settings control how Pale Moon saves
information about your web browsing.
Remember history
When it is set to Remember
history:
- Pale Moon will keep a list of the pages you've visited.
- A list of files you download will be kept in the Library
window.
- The text you enter into form fields or the search bar will
be remembered so you can use those entries again.
- Pale Moon will accept cookies from sites until they
expire.
Click on:
- clear your recent history to open the
Clear Recent History window, which allows you to quickly erase some or
all of your history.
- remove individual cookies to display the
Cookies window which will allow you to quickly delete cookies for one,
multiple, or all websites you have visited.
Never remember history
When it is set to Never remember history:
- Pale Moon will not keep a record of your browsing history.
- The files you download will not be listed or remembered in
the Library window.
Note that the files themselves will remain saved on your disk even when
exiting the browser.
- The text you enter into form fields or the search bar will
not be remembered.
- Pale Moon will accept cookies from sites and delete them
when you close the browser.
Using Never remember history is equivalent
to always being in Private Browsing mode.
Click on clear all current history to open
the Clear Recent History window, which allows you to quickly erase some
or all of your stored browsing and download history.
Use custom settings for history
Wheit is set to Use custom settings for history,
the following settings will be available:
- Always use private browsing mode:
If selected, Pale Moon will not remember any new history the next time
it starts. Your already-saved history will be retained.
- Remember my browsing and download history:
If selected, Pale Moon will keep a list of the pages you've visited and
the files you've downloaded.
- Remember search and form history:
If selected, the text you enter into form fields or the search bar will
be remembered so you can use those entries again at a later time.
- Accept cookies from sites:
If selected, Pale Moon will accept cookies from
sites. Click Exceptions…
to control whether some sites are not allowed to set cookies.
Additional settings to control which cookies are accepted and how they
are treated:
- Accept third-party cookies:
- Always: Pale Moon will always accept
cookies from http://site2.com when you are visiting http://site1.com.
Requests for local storage from site2 are allowed. (default)
- From Visited: When you are visiting http://site1.com,
Pale Moon will only accept cookies from http://site2.com if
you have previously visited it directly; otherwise, Pale Moon will not
accept them. Requests for local storage from site2 are still honored to
minimize interoperability issues on the web.
- Never: Pale Moon will never accept
cookies from http://site2.com when you are visiting http://site1.com.
Requests for local storage from site2 are also denied.
- Keep until:
- They expire: If selected, Pale Moon
will allow the sites you visit to specify how long Pale Moon should
keep their cookies. (default)
- I close Pale Moon: If selected, your
session cookies will be deleted when you close Pale Moon.
Click Show Cookies…
to display the Cookies window for easy removal of one or more stored
cookies.
- Clear history when Pale Moon closes:
When checked, certain saved items will be deleted when you close Pale
Moon. Click Settings…
to control which items are deleted.
Location Bar
The Location Bar (Address Bar) is the field where you enter a
site's web address (URL). The Location Bar suggests results as you type
in a search based on the following:
- History: If selected, sites you've
previously visited will appear on your results list.
- Bookmarks: Sites you've bookmarked will
appear on your results list.
- History and Bookmarks: Suggestions from
both categories will be shown. (default)
- Nothing: Neither your browsing history nor
your bookmarks will be used to make search suggestions.
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