Mozilla’s Anonymous Usage Tracking is not that Anonymous
Mozilla advertises Telemetry as Anonymous Usage Tracking, but it does not seem so, as Firefox’s privacy policy document mentions some critical terms regarding it.
Category Archives: Firefox
Samsung Joins Mozilla, Contributing to Servo and Rust Projects
Mozilla today announced that Samsung has started contributing to its ‘experimental’ browser engine Servo and Rust programming language.
Firefox 21 Would Suggest Users To Fix Slow Startup
Starting with Firefox 21, Firefox would prompt users to fix various possible issues affecting the startup time of Firefox.
Firefox 18.0.2 Released, Fixes JavaScript related stability issues
Mozilla has just released Firefox 18.0.2 for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms, which fixes JavaScript related stability issues causing browser crash.
Norton Toolbar for Firefox Updated, Solves Issues with Firefox 18
Symantec Corporation has released updates for its popular antivirus and security products, Norton 360 and Norton Internet Security 2013. These updates bring new version of integrated and important component, the Norton Toolbar for Firefox, which is now compatible with the Firefox 18.
Firefox Implements Three-States of DNT in Nightly Builds
Latest nightly build of Mozilla Firefox has implemented all the three-states of Do-Not-Track as described in the latest W3C specifications.
Mozilla To Disable Plug-ins by Default in Firefox
Mozilla has decided to disable all plug-ins by default in Firefox, except the latest version of Flash.
Firefox 19 Beta Released
After shipping the Firefox 18 as regular stable version, Mozilla has released the next beta version, Firefox 19, for desktop and Android platforms.
Mozilla Delays PDF.js Integration in Firefox
The PDF.js has not enabled by default in Firefox 18, and Mozilla is now targeting it for the Firefox 19.
New Features in Firefox 18
According to Mozilla, the IonMonkey is a big improvement for its JavaScript engine, SpiderMonkey, and yields 26% performance improvement on Mozilla’s Kraken benchmark. On Google’s V8 benchmark, it is faster by 7% than the Firefox 17.
