According to Bucking the Norm, Mozilla to Block Tracking Cookies in Firefox, 55.4 per cent of the total time required to load an average website was spent loading third-party trackers. I find that indicative of a problem with US businesses. I think marketers have adopted a “by any means necessary” approach to destroying customers privacy. In the physical world, users wouldn’t expect hundreds of vendors to follow them from store to store, spying on the products they look at or…
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Netscape falls from the sky Given AOL’s current business focus and the success the Mozilla Foundation has had in developing critically-acclaimed products, we feel it’s the right time to end development of Netscape branded browsers, hand the reins fully to Mozilla and encourage Netscape users to adopt Firefox. Alas, the end of an era and the end of my denying how old I am.…
Introducing Weave by Chris Beard As the Web continues to evolve and more of our lives move online, we believe that Web browsers like Firefox can and should do more to broker rich experiences while increasing user control over their data and personal information. Looks like the Mozilla foundation is getting into the services business. Mozilla's Weave project appears to duplicate the functionality of the Google's Browser Sync. In the current Weave 0.1 users will be able to synchronize their…
The restore session feature of Firefox is very nice to have. Firefox 2.0 will attempt to restore a session connection if the browser dies. However this has security implications especially for banking or any service with a login. See below for Mozilla Foundation notes: The Session Restore functionality provided in Firefox 2 will restore connections to services which use session cookies to maintain login state such as GMail. It is recommended that users with concerns about the privacy implications of this…
A group of developers calling themselves Pioneers of the Inevitable has launched an early beta of a multiplatform web based music player and browser called Songbird. Some members of the groups had worked previously on Winamp and the Yahoo! Music Engine. The current release is version 0.2 and is available for OS-X, Linux and Windows XP. I downloaded the current release onto my MacBook and when launched Songbird offered to import my iTunes library which it did quite successfully. It…
