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Collusion: Do you know where you are?

July 16, 2011 Pete Chapman Collusion, Firefox, Trackers, Tracking, Web Traffic11 Comments

The image and text above tells you just about everything you need to know. It’s from the Collusion project at http://collusion.toolness.org/ . It’s a Mozilla Firefox plug-in that allows you to visualise, either on the site or in a separate tab, a history of your web surfing for that session with lines showing which websites are sharing information about your movements with other websites ( the grey dots) or with dedicated trackers (the red dots). When you first visit the site it will demonstrate this using a pre-set series of…

Steve Jobs: The Boy Who Cried HTML5

June 6, 2010June 6, 2010 Doug Groves Apple, Chrome, Firefox, HTML 5, IE8, Safari, ua string, user agent, user agent string3 Comments

Ever since the Apple vs. Adobe tiff escalated to open letters and snark, the press has been eagerly gobbling this up as fodder to support the horse they’re backing. I’d say that few have actually stepped back to say that both sides are at least partially to blame. Apple wouldn’t have any ammo to fire at Adobe, if Adobe itself had actually delivered better mobile Flash technology much sooner. In the past it dabbled in Flash Lite, which gave some minor functionality, but it’s not until the past couple of…

The fastest browser on Earth

May 28, 2010May 28, 2010 drsquid browser, Chrome, Firefox, google, opera, parody, share, video0 comment

Opera, the 5th placed browser, released this funny video yesterday that parodies the Google Chrome speed test videos. Opera’s usage share of web browsers has held steady at approximately 2% since it came out. However, since its release in 2008, Chromes’ share has rapidly grown, at Firefox’s expense. I am sure Opera is hoping that this video will persuade other dissatisfied Firefox users to make the switch to them instead.

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 available now

January 22, 2010January 22, 2010 Doug Groves download, Firefox, Mozilla, update1 Comment

If you use Firefox, and haven’t yet got the update notification, verison 3.6 of the Mozilla Foundation’s popular web browser has been unleashed for Windows, Mac and Linux users. Although freshly minted, in my limited testing it does seem snappier than earlier versions, though with my standard 15 tabs open, memory usage hardly seems addressed. From the Firefox blog: Below are some of the coolest features of Firefox 3.6: Personas: Personalize the look of your Firefox by selecting new themes called Personas in a single click and without a restart…