Wow. "Don't be evil" is really dead and buried isn't it?
Doesn't mean we can't start looking for alternatives...
Google is Exploring an Alternative to Cookies for Ad Tracking
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#32I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ). I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved. I urge everyone to do the same.
I also made the switch after many years with Chrome. Chrome becomes very sluggish when you have too many tabs open, I guess this is why so many people like OneTab.
Today it's normal to have 10+ tabs open, to read the articles and then leave the best ones open for a later usage. That said I can easily have about 400 tabs open in various Tab-Groups, which is a killer feature.
But honestly, one Firefox addon is so important that I believe that it should be a core feature, it's called UnloadTab [1]. This addon frees up the memory unused tabs allocate, after a defined period of time. It helped a friend with a slow 800MHz Laptop with just a little RAM to finally start clicking links without being afraid that the machine locks up.
People who enjoy the TabGroups feature like I do, should definitely checkout the TabGroups Menu addon.
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[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabgroups-men...
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#33I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ). I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved. I urge everyone to do the same.
I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a couple of years now. It's really getting better in every build. And Vimperator is not available for Chrome. Nowadays my biggest reason to stay with Firefox is that I trust Mozilla more than I trust Google.
> I trust Mozilla more than I trust Google.
No company working with the NSA can ever be trusted. That only leaves Mozilla.
Plus, are there any other companies that are not-for-profit, like Mozilla? Because this point gives them a huge credit.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're most likely right, in that most people don't care about being tracked, but Google still isn't solving the basic problem, they are just working around the cookie restrictions. The focus should be on making a profit, while respecting peoples privacy.
I honestly don't mind being tracked. I don't know if it's just me but I prefer targeted advertising than just generic one. It's always more relevant and I do end up purchasing. Without tracking, there would be no targeted advertising.
You're assuming that advertising is the correct or only business strategy. I wouldn't mind getting tracked, if I felt that I could trust the companies collecting data about me, or perhaps just get access to it.
Honestly I don't see the value of tracking though. I tried running my browser without Ghostery recently. The "tracked" ads are generally pretty poorly targeted. I got a lot of ads for TransIP after browsing their price plans, but that's sort of the wrong time, at this point I'm already aware of them.
Amazons recommendations are pretty good for books, but not much more than that and that's despite them having huge amounts of data.
So why the need to track me, if you can't do anything useful with it?
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#35I've used chrome because it was faster than Firefox ( and didn't crash so often ). I've switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and couldn't be happier. It seems that all the stability issues were resolved. I urge everyone to do the same.
Those with speed problems on either Chrome or Firefox should try getting rid of Adblock (Plus). It makes many sites very slow, even though those sites are reasonably fast and fluid without the extension. It's to the point that viewing ads is less irritating.
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#36Remember the huge controversy that erupted when Intel wanted to put a program-readable unique serial number into its CPUs (in 1999)?
https://www.schneier.com/essay-187.html
http://slashdot.org/story/00/04/27/1021245/Intel-To-Drop-CPU...
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can download from: http://nightly.mozilla.org
That isn't the same build. Those are features that don't focus on the UX or the design. I think that build is labeled Aurora? I could be mistaken. UX Nightly includes those features but it is focused on user experience.
>Those are features that don't focus on the UX or the design. I think that build is labeled Aurora
Nope, Aurora is something else. It's the build after Nightly. Nightly includes pre-alpha releases, Aurora includes alpha releases.
You are however correct that Nightly and Nightly UX are not the same thing. Although if I'm not mistaken the only difference between two of them is that Nightly UX also gets pre-alpha UI changes as well as under the hood changes that Nightly normally gets (almost daily). It's a bit confusing.
To sum it up, the release cycle goes like this:
Nightly (pre-alpha) > Aurora (alpha) > Firefox Beta (beta) > Firefox (stable)
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I honestly don't mind being tracked. I don't know if it's just me but I prefer targeted advertising than just generic one. It's always more relevant and I do end up purchasing. Without tracking, there would be no targeted advertising.
You're assuming that advertising is the correct or only business strategy. I wouldn't mind getting tracked, if I felt that I could trust the companies collecting data about me, or perhaps just get access to it. Honestly I don't see the value of tracking though. I tried running my browser without Ghostery recently. The "tracked" ads are generally pretty poorly targeted. I got a lot of ads for TransIP after browsing th…
And it's getting better and better. Recommendation for books is much easier in that context since you have a hard sale and can compare to other hard sales.. and not assumptions based on visits.
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#39Wow. "Don't be evil" is really dead and buried isn't it?
It was dead from day 1.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
That isn't the same build. Those are features that don't focus on the UX or the design. I think that build is labeled Aurora? I could be mistaken. UX Nightly includes those features but it is focused on user experience.
>Those are features that don't focus on the UX or the design. I think that build is labeled Aurora Nope, Aurora is something else. It's the build after Nightly. Nightly includes pre-alpha releases, Aurora includes alpha releases. You are however correct that Nightly and Nightly UX are not the same thing. Although if I'm not mistaken the only difference between two of them is that Nightly UX also gets pre-alpha UI cha…
Ah, thanks for the explanation. The process has been somewhat unclear to me for a while now.