How to close private browsing sessions on Firefox?

| Updated: Monday, March 4, 2013, 9:36 [IST]

PB Exit is an add on with FireFox that can be used to automatically close a private browsing session that is inactive. This tool allows the closing of the private browsing session after ten minutes of inactivity. This is applicable either to the last page load or to even a tab switch.

How to close private browsing sessions on Firefox?

PB Exit Firefox extension is very much easier to make use of. All that the users will have to do from their point of side is to

Download the extension

Install it

Run it on the background

One of the major advantages of making use of this tool is that there is no need for users to worry about their private data as well as unclosed tabs since the tool will automatically close all the tabs after ten minutes of remaining in the idle state. This can be considered as one of the best ways to ensure that the user"s data is secured and well prevented from access by any strangers.

There is also a possibility of a new feature that will be added on to this add-on by means of which users can set their desired time-limit for the tabs to get automatically closed. As of now, the default time is set to ten minutes from the private browsing sessions are left idle.

With the new feature about to be added, it will be a huge relief for all those users who might want the browsing sessions to get closed seconds after it is left idle. It might also help those users who wish to increase the time limit for the closing of the browser sessions to some what more than ten minutes.

The working of the add-on is as follows.

Once PB Exit has been installed, users will not have to worry whether they have left closing the tabs in the private browsing session or not

The add-on is designed in such a way that it will instantly detect the browsers remaining idle exactly ten minutes after the user left the browser open

It will then automatically close all the tabs that are open in the private browsing session

As soon as all the open tabs get closed, users can see that the tabs that were open in a normal Firefox session instantly being displayed

Thus PB Exit can be overall considered as a very useful add-on that can help the user protect their private browsing data from any sort of unauthorized access. The PB Exit add-on for Firefox is available for download from Add-ons for Firefox.