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1 ====================== 2 Private Browsing Proxy 3 ====================== 4 5 On Windows, Firefox ships with a small binary that always launches 6 ``firefox.exe`` in Private Browsing mode (``private_browsing.exe``). Its sole 7 purpose for existing is to allow Private Browsing shortcuts to have their own 8 Visual Elements. This is most notably seen when pinning a Private Browsing 9 shortcut to the Start Menu -- Visual Elements are used for the icon there 10 rather than the shortcut's icon. 11 12 In addition to always passing ``-private-window``, ``private_browsing.exe`` 13 will forward any other command line arguments given to it to ``firefox.exe``. 14 It will also forward shortcut information from the Windows ``STARTUPINFOW`` 15 structure to ensure that Firefox knows how it was started.