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If you’re one of those people who is very particular about protecting your privacy you might find many sites on the web today very intrusive. There are some basic tips  that a lot of users might be familiar with, like clearing your cookies and browsing history frequently.
Here are some advanced tips on how you can improve your privacy if you use Firefox web browser to surf the web.

1. Clear a particular URL from your browsing history

Start to type out the URL, and when Firefox pops up that site in the list of sites, select it by moving your cursor over it (but don’t click) – hold down the Shift key and click the Delete button on your keyboard.

2. Set smart cookie settings

There are a number of websites that don’t allow you a normal browsing experience without having your browser accept all cookies. If you are not a fan of cookies and want to browse this website there’s a nice solution to the problem. You can, of course, manually erase all the cookies after you are done browsing such a website. A smarter way to achieve this might be to use Firefox’s built in setting that deletes all cookies when you close your web browser.

• Select Firefox and then Preferences



• Select the Privacy tab. Set Firefox will: to Use custom settings for history



• Make sure Accept third-party cookies is checked, and then select I close Firefox from the Keep until: menu.
  

3. Clear History Automatically

Like in the previous tip, you can have Firefox clear your history every time you close the browser. This is a particularly good thing to set on a publicly used computer.

• Select Firefox and then Preferences



• Select the Privacy tab. Make sure the box next to Clear history when Firefox closes is checked
  
• You can further secure Firefox by determining what other data should be deleted when you close Firefox by clicking the Settings button. This will bring up a window with many choices.
  

4. Use Master Password

If you have set Firefox to save the passwords you use to login into your web accounts and want to maintain some degree of privacy while using them, Firefox allows you to set a master password which allows these passwords to be used.

• Select Firefox and then Preferences
  
• Select the Security tab and place a check in the box next to Use master password.
  
• Now enter your password in both the spaces provided. Click OK. For each Firefox session going forward, you’ll need to enter your master password before you’re able to enter a user/pass on a web site.
  

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