# Thursday, August 31, 2006

Yet another browser - not

This sort of thing annoys me....

Web browser leaves no footprints.  The latest entrant to the crowded Internet browser market is the appropriately named Browzar, a tool specifically designed to protect users' privacy by not retaining details of the Web sites they've searched. ... [via InfoWorld: Top News]

No, it isn't a new browser - it is a simple wrapper on the IE web browser control in which they have (probably) turned off storage of files in the cache. It isn't even a very well done wrapper - run it and resize the window - yuk. They claim Mac and Linux coming soon, hmmmmm, interesting to see if it is a bit bigger than 264K in those cases.

[Update, and now it has made Slashdot]

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