Firefox 3.5: Browsing Privacy
In the age of transparency, it appears some of us are embarrassed to be ourselves. Maybe you're a closet Perez Hilton fan, or you check Woot! at work, or perhaps as suggested by PC Pro, you like to bookmark your porn collection. In any case, a number of Firefox 3 users reverted back to version 2 due to the location bar's (awesome bar's) ability to search against browser history and bookmarks. A recent Mozilla blog post walks users through the privacy control enhancements of Firefox 3.5.
Said Principal Designer Alex Faaborg, "Having something from your previous browsing displayed to someone else who is using your computer (or even worse) to a large audience of people as you are giving a presentation, is really one of the most embarrassing things that Firefox can do to you."
One quarter of those surveyed who reverted back to Firefox 2 cited privacy as their biggest issue with Firefox 3. In an effort to curb privacy fears, Firefox 3.5 allows for private browsing, the ability to clear a portion of the history and website blocking to stop certain websites from appearing in browser history.
If Mozilla's little location bar raised this much attention, imagine the barriers facing shared browsing services and history trackers. Skabble, Hooeey and Me.dium (Now OneRiot) must have faced enormous scrutiny around user privacy. It's interesting to see privacy become an issue with browsing habits while in other areas we allow so much of our private lives to trickle into the ether.
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Just wanted to point out an error in the link for hooeey (www.hooeey.com). There seems to be an extra ' " ' in the address.
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Having your website preferences displayed to larger audience is highly inconvenient, and at times, embarrassing. I am sure that the Firefox 3.5 has covered all bases in regards to this issue, and is now set to move forward.
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Just wanted to point out an error in the link for hooeey (www.hooeey.com). There seems to be an extra ' " ' in the address.
"In the age of transparency, it appears some of us are embarrassed to be ourselves."
Is that sarcasm?
Im here for the data... not to "be myself".
The title of this post is misleading and potentially dangerous to people who genuinely need anonymity.
All that these Firefox settings do is hide the browser history from other computer users - they only provide anonymity at the far edge of the client-side of browsing. They do NOTHING to provide anonymous browsing in terms of protecting the information you are sending and receiving from being intercepted at any number of different transaction points.
Bear in mind that many of the people who most need anonymity - ie human rights activists under oppressive regimes - are not native English speakers, and could misinterpret the title of this post and believe that Firefox 3.5 is sufficient protection. I hope you'll do the responsible thing and change the title.
Hi, if you use "Forget this site" feature, it'll also delete all your password of this site you saved. Every time you enter this site, you must manually login again. Oh, anyone can tell me how to restore sites you have "Forget this site"?
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