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