Worried about your girlfriend, wife, or mom seeing all the dirty stuff you check out online? Well, fear not, as Microsoft’s new release of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) will include a feature that lets you surf the Web without a trace of what you checked out.

In early June, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates promised that it would release Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 before the end of August and it did! Today, Microsoft launched the second beta version of its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser but would not give a guarantee to its final release.

In Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft plans to include several advanced privacy tools, which some people have tagged as IE8′s “Porn Mode”.

The new tool called InPrivate Browsing, which will release later this month in the second beta version of IE8 will force Internet Explorer to automatically clear your cache, delete your browsing and search history, cookies, form data and passwords. While Microsoft says it’s designed for people using public or shared computers, do we really need to explain why this is being dubbed as “porn mode”?

Some critics joke that this could be Microsoft’s way of competing with its ever popular browser rival, Mozilla Firefox.

Other new features include InPrivate Blocking, which tells you when content is able to track your browsing history, and InPrivate Subscription, which gives you lists of sites to block. Another change is to the “Delete Browsing History” option, which now lets you keep cookies for certain sites. Mozilla which was supposed to have similar features in Firefox 3.0 is hoping to have it in 3.1, sometime in the next few months.

Last month, Microsoft also leaked information about new security measures it would introduce in IE8 Beta 2. New security measures would include anti-malware protection and a filter it said would block the most common cross-site scripting attacks. These new security measures would be warmly welcomed in my book and might just finally make me return to Internet Explorer.

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