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: 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.]