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We demand a real solution! How can Private Browsing be REMOVED [not "DISABLED"]? or...at least made accessible only by a password? password

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Please don't give some stock answer or say,"Well, whoever you're trying to keep from using this feature on your computer will still find a way to use it." Simply provide the solution/answer for this for v4, or at least make this a user option [in about:config, for instance] OR password protect the enabling of it [OR both] in your next version. When you have done this, then and only then can you genuinely say,"Everyone likes to browse their own way, so we’ve made it easy to adjust the Firefox interface to be exactly the way you like it," quoting you from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#powerfulpersonalization.

Please don't give some stock answer or say,"Well, whoever you're trying to keep from using this feature on your computer will still find a way to use it." Simply provide the solution/answer for this for v4, or at least make this a user option [in about:config, for instance] OR password protect the enabling of it [OR both] in your next version. When you have done this, then and only then can you genuinely say,"Everyone likes to browse their own way, so we’ve made it easy to adjust the Firefox interface to be exactly the way you like it," quoting you from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#powerfulpersonalization.

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Sorry, the Mozilla developers didn't include a switch to turn that feature off. And the developers requested that I stop posting this "hack", as it may affect more than just the Private Browsing part of Firefox. The only real solution is to stop using Firefox, IMO.

This worked in Firefox 3.5.x and 3.6.x versions:
Delete the nsPrivateBrowsingService.js file from Program Files > Mozilla Firefox >> Components folder.

In Firefox 4.0.x, that file was moved into the omni.jar file which needs to be "un-packed" to get to that file to delete it, and then the omni.jar file needs to be re-packed, I have seen it posted that WinRAR is the program to use to work with the omni.jar container. I have used WinRAR to un-pack that "container" to examine the contents, but haven't tried using it to re-pack the omni.jar container and then tried to see if it worked after editing or removing a file.

just an olde hot rodder from the 60's - '55 Bel-Air w/L-88, '57 Business Coupe w/327, '64 SS 409, '69 Z-28 - now playing in the streets of the internet with Firefox