The privacy button that Phorm will ignore


The BBC reports as news that Microsoft is to introduce a privacy mode in its next version of its second-most popular bloatware after Windows, namely Internet Explorer. Version 8 of IE will feature a button that will erase any trace on the host computer of websites you’ve visited. Yet towards the end of the article, the writer just about remembers to inform readers that Apple’s Safari browser already has a privacy mode and developers working for Mozilla, creators of Firefox, are reportedly working on a similar feature for future versions. He or she makes no mention of the fact that there’s at least one plugin for Firefox that does the job, and has done so for over a year now, called Stealther.

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Friday, August 22nd, 2008

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Microsoft-specific code friendly to Internet Explorer (no surprise) but poisons real browsers like Firefox and Safari


Firefox among all the alternatives to Internet Explorer may be taking a big bite out of the unworthy number one browser, but IE-specific code dating back years continues to poison the fox and every other browser, primarily because there are too many sites developed using Microsoft products and designed to work correctly only with IE.

But what’s worse: a website designed to work properly only in IE under Windows (because it contains Microsoft-specific coding thanks to amateurish use of inherently shite Microsoft products), or the fact that you get ignored when you send very polite and extremely nice emails letting the site owners know their pages don’t load correctly under Mac OS X, with both the Safari and Firefox browsers? Actually, both are very annoying.

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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