Mozilla: Almost one in 10 Firefox users opt for Do Not Track
The Firefox outfit has published a round-up of its achievements this year, including what it says is proof that 'there is a real user appetite for choice on issues of web privacy'.
The Firefox outfit has published a round-up of its achievements this year, including what it says is proof that 'there is a real user appetite for choice on issues of web privacy'.
Mozilla has pointed out that, if a proposed German law really did make search engines pay for returning results that include headlines and snippets of news articles, the result may actually be to entrench the position of deep-pocketed Google.
The programming interface, being developed within the W3C, could lead to more secure web apps. Possible use cases include cloud storage and secure messaging.
The finer details of the arrangement are yet to emerge, but it appears as though Google has routed its opponents here. The litigation is over, and the company will not need to pay any ancillary copyright fees for include headlines and text snippets in its results.
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DNT was already supported by browsers from Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple, and now it's a feature of Chrome as well. But people turning on the feature in Google's browser are warned that many websites will still collect their data to serve ads.
Having landed in seriously hot water over its browser choice mechanism - or lack thereof - in Windows 7, Microsoft has now promised to give IE10 less of an inbuilt advantage in Windows 8. It claims it will make the necessary changes in time for the Windows 8 launch on Friday.
A Mozilla evangelist has tweeted the first real-world picture of the upcoming mobile operating system, which was until this week known as Boot 2 Gecko
Thunderbird's 20 million users will in future only get security updates from Mozilla, apparently because people are switching to other messaging technologies and aren't bothered with further email innovation
The royalty-free audio codec, which is also backed by Mozilla and is the first of its kind to gain official ratification from the IETF, should see widespread adoption as it is integral to the nascent WebRTC real-time communications standard.