BrowserStar 2.8s

You may not know this, but every time you surf the web, you leave traces of your surfing habits behind. If you care about your privacy, and you should care, you will remove these traces that you leave behind when you surf the web. How do you do this? Why you do what I always do – turn to software and see if there is an application out there that can lend a helping hand.

Luckily for you there is just an application out there: the Abelssoft-developed application BrowserStar. This application has been developed with a clear goal in mind: to help you protect your privacy by letting you easily remove internet traces.

To get a better idea of what BrowserStar can do for you, here is the functionality you can expect to get from the application:
- BrowserStar provides support for all major web browsers. So no matter what browser you’re currently using, you will be able to easily protect your privacy.
- Remove history entries, web cache, cookies, temporary files, and typed URLs.
- Play with some Internet Explorer settings.
- Manage your Internet Explorer bookmarks.
- Set BrowserStar to automatically remove internet traces on each Windows start.

Before you get BrowserStar and put it to the test, take a look at these technical details:
Download – the download weighs in at some 1.2MB. At such a lightweight download size, it will take very little time to get BrowserStar off the web and onto your computer.
Installation – at the time of writing this, BrowserStar provides support for Windows XP and Vista. If you want something that works with Windows 7, then you need to get AntiBrowserSpy. This is also an Abelssoft-developed application. The difference is that it provides Windows 7 support. It also provides support for more browsers than BrowserStar does.
Limitations – you can use BrowserStar free of charge for a trial period of 30 days.

Pros

• Removes history entries, web cache, cookies, temporary files, and typed URLs
• Manage Internet Explorer bookmarks and play with some settings

Cons

• Free to try
• Not as good as AntiBrowserSpy, another Abelssoft-developed application

About Abelssoft
Established in 1994 and headquartered in Germany, Abelssoft is a business unit of Ascora GmbH, company that provides a wide range of services and products in the IT domain. All the software solutions that Ascora comes up with are distributed under the Abelssoft logo.

Additional details about Abelssoft are available here.
Additional details about Ascora are available here.

BrowserStar has been reviewed by George Norman on 06 Sep 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated BrowserStar 3 out of 5 stars, naming it Very Good