Browser privacy mode support

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, support a browser privacy mode in a plugin of the browser. In one aspect, a method includes applying a private browsing mode of a browser in a plugin program of the browser, the applying including: obtaining, in a process, an indication of the private browsing mode of the browser; specifying, in response to the indication, that an instance of the plugin program initiated within the process is set to run in a private data mode that cannot be exited; receiving, in the instance of the plugin program initiated within the process and set to run in the private data mode, information that results in locally cached data; and saving, in response to the receiving, the locally cached data entirely in volatile memory without saving to persistent storage.

主权项

1. A method performed by a data processing apparatus, the method comprising: applying a private browsing mode of a browser in a plugin program of the browser, the applying comprising:
obtaining an indication of the private browsing mode of the browser, said obtaining, in a process that is compatible with multiple different browser programs, browser-specific data for the indication of the private browsing mode of the browser; specifying, in response to the indication and the browser-specific data, that an instance of the plugin program initiated within the process is set to run in a private data mode that cannot be exited for a duration of operation of the plugin program instance; receiving, in the instance of the plugin program initiated within the process and set to run in the private data mode, information that results in locally cached data; and saving, in response to the receiving, the locally cached data entirely in volatile memory without saving the locally cached data to persistent storage effective to prevent access to the locally cached data in the volatile memory from another process.