As concern about online privacy grows, Mozilla s promising to let people cloak Internet activity in free Firefox Web browsing software being released early next year.
Microsoft this month unveiled increased privacy options for the upcoming version of its popular Web browser Internet Explorer 9 including a feature to help keep third-party websites from tracking your Web behavior.
Microsoft said "Tracking Protection" will be built into a test version of IE9 being released early next year. IE9 users will have to be savvy enough to activate the feature and create lists of the third-party websites that they do not want to track their behavior.
Google, which beefed up Chrome in recent weeks and is testing a notebook computer that operates on the Web browser software, cautioned that the mechanics and ramifications of stealth browsing need to be figured out.
Supporters of targeted online ads argue that Internet users benefit from getting pitches tailored to their interests. Firefox believes perils to privacy online are urgent enough to warrant building stealth into the coming version of its Browser Software, which has 400 million users around the world.
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