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...loaded on our computer, as long as it allows us to check our e-mail, do a little shopping, peruse Facebook and send the occasional tweet. We live and work within a browser, and it makes no difference whether it's Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari or Mozilla's Firefox, as long as it gets the job done, right? But things are different now. (See the top 10 gadgets...
...While it may seem a trivial issue to allow rivals like Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari to put their icons on Microsoft screens, the concession could signal the end of the company's domination of the browser market. Until now, Microsoft has used its near monopoly in operating systems to foist Explorer on Windows users - despite the fact that the browser is widely derided by computer experts and everyday users alike as being clunky. Critics say this brutal marketing strategy explains why Explorer accounts for about 64% of global Internet traffic, followed by Firefox at 25% and Safari and Google...
...perfect—with over 40 behavioral advertising companies on the 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?...
...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...