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Mike Isaac in Social on May 17 at 9:59 am PT
Twitter users on supported browsers can now opt out of being tracked by third-party sites and cookies by enabling the “Do Not Track” feature, Twitter announced on Thursday. Federal Trade Commission CTO Ed Felton championed the feature at a conference in New York on Thursday morning. Since Mozilla first introduced the feature for its Firefox browser last year, the company claims nearly 10 percent desktop-user adoption of DNT, and almost 20 percent on Firefox for mobile.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 7 at 9:40 am PT
Chrome arrives in beta form in the Android Market, and requires the latest Ice Cream Sandwich version of the operating system.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 17 at 3:40 pm PT
As many as 7,000 Web sites are thought to be participating in tomorrow’s anti-SOPA protest by going dark. Here are a few who will — or may — be among them.
Kara Swisher in News on December 22, 2011 at 10:57 am PT
The search giant will pony up close to $1 billion to hipcheck Microsoft’s Bing from the pole position on the Firefox browser.
Liz Gannes in News on December 20, 2011 at 10:49 am PT
Mozilla is about to announce that it has signed a new three-year agreement for Google to be the default search option in its Firefox browser.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on December 9, 2011 at 12:47 pm PT
HP CEO Meg Whitman and director Marc Andreessen talk about the commitment HP plans to make to its new open source project.
Liz Gannes in News on December 5, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
Mozilla today responded to public scrutiny of renewal of its key revenue deal with Google by replying that it is “in active negotiations” with its major partner and competitor.
Liz Gannes in News on June 21, 2011 at 12:04 pm PT
Mozilla has rather shamelessly sped up the numbering of its browser releases to push out Firefox 5 today, only three months after the release of Firefox 4.