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...sometimes be pretty “egreg” (egregious for those over 22). But our impatience with technology is not entirely without productive potential. A number of recent studies, for example, have confirmed that we are better multi-taskers than our parents, a fact poignantly illuminated when Firefox asks, “There are 40 tabs open. Do you want to quit anyway...
...internet, TACO has yet to block all ad tracking. “Hopefully, that will all be done within the next year,” he said. Soghoian noted that he has already talked to Microsoft and Mozilla about incorporating TACO into the popular web browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox. Mark A. Fusunyan ’12 said that since he doesn’t tend to click on online ads, ad-tracking did not pose a “huge concern” to him. “The program seems like a good idea to put into...
...shouldn't be a big surprise to anyone that Google's doing this," said John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, the world's second most popular browser. Noting the aggressive direction that Microsoft is taking, he added, "I think Google has some nervousness around issues of control and ownership...
...Over the long term, Firefox, which recently released its 3.0 version - downloaded more than 8 million times, a record - could be collateral damage in the browser wars. Google has long been a patron of its open-source browser, and pays a kind of "click back" to Mozilla for directing its 200 million users to Google. In 2006, the last time Mozilla released its numbers on the subject, Google had paid the company $65 million. "It's north of that now," Lilly said. He noted that Google recently extended its relationship with Mozilla until 2011, which gives it plenty of time...
...Indeed, getting people to actually download software, even free software, is a lousy business and takes lots of experience. Lilly, who is usually a calm fellow, appeared to be especially unperturbed by Google's encroachment into Firefox's terrain. "The most surprising thing about Google's announcement today was this - everyone has been talking about the mobile future," he said. "But desktop browsing is the really contested field right...