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Magic Oddball writes:
"Mozilla's new VP of Content posted an announcement to his blog stating that sometime in the presumably-near future, "sponsored content" will begin appearing in the unused tiles on Firefox's New Tab Page. It will be rolled out first to desktop Firefox, then mobile and FirefoxOS. AdAge: "Mozilla hasn't made a final decision on how to treat third-party tracking technologies, but Mr. Herman said it is investigating solutions such as unique identifiers from Apple and Google as well as other third parties."
DigitalTrends pointed out, "if the scheme proves lucrative, it may be hard to resist rolling them out to all users in some shape or form" and TechCrunch feels it's a trial 'to see how users react before pushing promoted tiles to all users in their new tab pages.'"
(Score: 2, Interesting) by TheGratefulNet on Monday March 24 2014, @04:20PM
I won't touch chrome or anything google based.
what the hell does this leave us, now? I love the plugin arch. of FF but I'm liking FF less and less these days. I had my adblockers all setup and working nicely. then, mozilla auto-'updated' me and I lost what I had and had to redo things all over again. their update was not benign and it costed me real time to restore things to how I had them before. I now disable all updates for FF and their plugins. the 'cure' is worse than any disease I can get online.
why must everyone always be thinking of 'how can we monetize things EVEN MORE?'. aren't FF getting ENOUGH money from google to stay the fuck out of our hair? I guess not.
the FF guys are now no better than the MS or apple guys. time to switch. but to what? lynx++ ??
"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
(Score: 2) by bucc5062 on Monday March 24 2014, @04:28PM
There is Internet Explorer...kidding...really...although...
Opera seems like the next option down the line, or Safari though I've not sure how extensions/add on are on those browsers.
What is strange is will they be disabling ad block plus (or blockers) for it seems to me that unless t hey do, any one running that would still get blank page displays on the new tab. Now if they work around that....yikes.
Chrome still may be the better bet. There are some extensions to limit tracking and if I am to be a servant, then google still seems(?) like a benevolent moocher. As I run adBlock Plus, the day I see ads in FF like that, that is the day I drop it for good. As is, it regularly crashes my Linux Mint system at home.
The more things change, the more they look the same
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Monday March 24 2014, @10:58PM
I tried Chrome and promptly wished to do horrible things to Google's developers. "Hated it" doesn't begin to express it.
Right now I use the pre-Firefox fork SeaMonkey (with PrefBar and NoScript), and sincerely hope it doesn't go down this same misguided path.
I do predict that this will generate another major fork of Firefox.
[And yet another reason why I keep old browser versions, rather than uninstalling them.]
(Score: 1) by pshuke on Monday March 24 2014, @04:28PM
I figure forks and semi-forks like IceCat will still be around to make more sensible choices than Mozilla does. Otherwise it's w3m for me.
(Score: 1) by guises on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:37PM
I use Pale Moon, a Firefox fork that I rather like. Even if that stops being an option, there's always Konqueror - no need to give up on the graphical web entirely.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday March 24 2014, @05:50PM
Chrome really is a superior browser though. I have to use IE/Firefox/Chrome/Safari/Opera every day to make sure there are no bugs and a relatively consistent browsing experience.
Chrome has been by far the most stable, most responsive, and also, the most correct rendering engine.
I understand the resistance towards Chrome completely, which is why there is the alternative: Chromium.
All the good parts of Chrome and none of the tracking bullshit.
(Score: 2) by TK on Wednesday March 26 2014, @09:15AM
Does Chrome/Chromium have noscript (or a clone) yet? That's kind of a sticking point for a lot of people here.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 2, Informative) by Teckla on Monday March 24 2014, @05:56PM
Have you considered trying Chromium? [chromium.org]
(Score: 1) by The Archon V2.0 on Monday March 24 2014, @10:47PM
I've been liking the Comodo-made variants on Chrome and Firefox, though I haven't done any sort of security audit of 'em or anything.
http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/icedr agon-browser.php [comodo.com]