How To Track Who’s Tracking You

February 29, 2012 By MJ Leave a Comment

As you navigate through the web, your browsing data is constantly being spread to various companies. In an effort to help users track this, Mozilla has developed an add on for Firefox called Collusion. It will show, in real time, how that data creates a spider-web of interaction between companies and other trackers. Not all tracking is negative, however when users are tracked without consent it is wrong and hopefully this tool will aid in eliminating this trend in the future.

Mozilla has partnered with The Ford Foundation in hopes that they will enable users to not only see who is tracking them across the Web, but also to turn that tracking off when they want to.

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Browser Updates

August 16, 2010 By MJ Leave a Comment

Chrome 6 Promoted to Beta Status

You can now download Chrome 6 Beta.

The new  features include: a simplified user interface, a new autofill feature for completing web forms, better syncing, which includes support for autofill data and extensions.

The autofill feature is integrated in Chrome 6 beta, so all of your instances of Chrome (home, work, laptop, etc) will be able to share preferences, extensions, browsing data and themes, as well as form data.  Chrome will store, sync, and remember information you’d normally put in a web form.  Additionally, Chrome can remember credit card information.

In the next couple of weeks, Chrome will probably move from a beta to a general stable release.

Latest Beta Version of Firefox 4 Released

Mozilla has released the latest beta version of its Firefox 4 browser.  You can download the Firefox 4 beta 3 for all major operating systems and over 30 languages from here.

The biggest addition is for touch events inside the browser on Windows 7 machines, which has built-in support for multi-touch actions on touch screen tablets, desktops, and laptops.  Firefox now enables you to interact with websites simply by touching them.  Check out this video

There have also been enhancements to JavaScript capabilities with Firefox, giving scripting animation  performance a noticeable boost, making the speed difference less noticeable.

Note that Firefox 4 is only a pre-release browser.  Firefox 4 will be officially released in October or November of this year

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