Mozilla phancies doing a Phorm

[YoKenny]

Mozilla phancies doing a Phorm

Firefox - your friendly data snooper

By Andrew Orlowski

Published Monday 19th May 2008 11:48 GMT

 

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The Phorm bug is spreading. The idea of collecting a user's browsing history and flogging that data doesn't just appeal to ISPs. The Mozilla Foundation, the people behind the Firefox browser, want some of that action too.

 

The Foundation is officially a tax exempt non-profit - but still manages to pay its chairperson $500,000 a year. Executives last week confirmed they are working on a project referred to internally as "Data". This would gather anonymised data on a voluntary basis, and provide the analytical information for anyone who wanted it.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/firefox_data_snoop/

[Icedrake]

Back to Opera.

[Andavari]

Back to Opera.

That's what I was thinking too. However so long as there's an opt-in and opt-out ability it should be alright.

 

I do often wonder why Firefox is connecting to something when it's loaded and I even have a null/blank start page. I don't know if it's for an update check or not.

[YoKenny]

I never did like Firefox.

 

I use IE7Pro:

http://www.ie7pro.com

 

With the latest update that adds FasterIE its probably as fast if not faster than Firefox.

 

With its Plugins and User Scripts it can add many equivalent Firefox add-ins.

 

My favorite Plugins are Accu Weather and Server Info.

 

My favorite User Script is Google Two Column Display:

http://iescripts.org/view-scripts-108p1.htm