[LINK] RFI: Firefox 3.5/3.6

Pilcher, Fred Fred.Pilcher at act.gov.au
Fri Mar 26 11:22:34 AEDT 2010


Roger wrote:

> Call me a serious sceptic if you will, but that looks like an active
> effort on the part of the designers to advantage marketers over
> consumers, by ensuring that only a very small proportion of Firefox
> 3.6 users block Google-related functions.

It was probably inevitable once it became clear that FF was a potential
money spinner. I wonder whether we'll see a fork.

For all that, though, plugins like NoScript still seem to plug the worst
of the holes - it's unlikely that we'll ever see the like in Chrome.

Fred 
  
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