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Submission + - Mozilla celebrates the release of Firefox 100 (mozilla.org)

Submitted by vm on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:27PM

vm writes: Out of the ashes of Netscape/AOL, Firebird rose as a promising new browser. A significant name change and a hundred releases later, Firefox 100 is still the underdog that keeps on fighting. With my mounting annoyance at all the Google services underpinning Chrome, I've since discovered and used Ungoogled Chromium, Waterfox, LibreWolf, and a handful of other lesser known spins on Chrome or Firefox. On mobile, Brave really does the best job at ad blocking whether you're on iOS or Android but the Mozilla Foundations is probably still the largest dev group fighting the good fight when it comes to both privacy and security enhancements.That's not to say that the Chromium team isn't security savvy — I only wish they were just a little less Google. Anyhow, tell us about your favorite browser in the comments and have a look at Mozilla's latest release while you're at it.

Comment Re:Shortsighted if true (Score 1) 140

by AndyElf on Sunday March 08, 2009 @02:59AM (#27110455) Attached to: Shaming Russia Into Action On Cyber Crime

Indeed, and let's not forget that a significant amount of cyber crime originates neither in Russia or EE, but China, India and (shudder) US.

Let us also not put into the same bucket media piracy and true "cyber crime" of breaking & entering type (and TFA, thankfully does not fall for this).

Comment Re:It's shareware all over again. (Score 1) 205

by AndyElf on Sunday February 22, 2009 @04:16AM (#26947129) Attached to: We're Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps

Amen, brother. I have 7 screens of apps on my iPhone, many of which I seldom use. There're also, maybe, 5-7 apps I have removed from iPhone, most of which I paid for (within $4 each, I think). There are a few apps I still keep on the phone simply because I think I **might** need them (e.g. PCalc, HearPlanet, iTalk, Sketches). There're also those that I use, but rarely -- since they serve a certain purpose like: show-off (PocketGuitar, MiniPiano), getting stuff on and off the phone (Air Sharing), sharing photos (Darkslide), killing time (lots of games), etc.

There's nothing wrong with such pattern. Think in terms of a number of shareware or demo apps one downloads to give it a try. Except iPhone makes it far easier and cheaper.

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