Firefox or Safari???

spaceboy

Honestly the people dissing Firefox really don't appear to have used the current version, I find it superb.

Marty_J

asininity wrote: »

I use firefox mainly and am not tracked.

So you manully opted-out?

According to google yes, according to phorm they just want to target advertising specifically to you. Personally I dont want any info going to anyone unless I opt in.

What has Phorm got to do with it?

As long as I dont see adds I dont care how they make money.

My point was not about how they make their money. You said it was unlikely there would be an ad-blocker for Chrome as Google make their money from ads. My point was that there is an ad-blocker for Firefox, and they also make their money from ads.

Sp, ipso facto, making money from advertising does not preclude the availability of an ad-blocker

Again not my concern. And its up to me what the default search engine is.

You're missing the point. See above.

asininity

Marty_J wrote: »

So you manully opted-out?

Yes and no, I have the TACO addon installed. And for the ones not covered I have Track Me Not and Ghostery addons installed.

What has Phorm got to do with it?

Its the same thing they gather info from your browsing habits to target adds for you. They say its anonymous etc but it has the potential for more.

My point was not about how they make their money. You said it was unlikely there would be an ad-blocker for Chrome as Google make their money from ads. My point was that there is an ad-blocker for Firefox, and they also make their money from ads.

Sp, ipso facto, making money from advertising does not preclude the availability of an ad-blocker

OK the way you worded it made it sound like the ad blocker made money from ads, which didn't really make sense but was not my concern.

Now I could be called cynical but google could easily have put an inbuilt adblocker in chrome, why haven't they? Will we see one?? Who knows. All I know is they'll make more money from a Browser/OS that can track a users browsing habits-target there advertising-have the advertising unblocked.

If I'm still missing your point you'll have to spell it out nice and simple for me.

Daniel59

spaceboy wrote: »

Honestly the people dissing Firefox really don't appear to have used the current version, I find it superb.

339,413,227

Firefox 3.5 downloads since June 30, 2009

5.3.4 is releaset last night

isofa

^ According to Mozilla v3.5.3 is still the latest version...

Daniel59

isofa wrote: »

^ According to Mozilla v3.5.3 is still the latest version...

Oops that was a mistake, it is v.3.5.4

isofa

Daniel59 wrote: »

Oops that was a mistake, it is v.3.5.4

Again not according to Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, it's still v3.5.3 as before:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

Daniel59

isofa wrote: »

Again not according to Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, it's still v3.5.3 as before:
http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/

This is my browser Screenshot

isofa

Spooky, have you been hacked?!

All versions officially are 3.5.3 for all platforms, full authorised list here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

If you try and create a download link for 3.5.4 such as: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-3.5.4&os=win&lang=en-GB it obviously fails.

Just checked the updates, none also due...

Even the portable edition is 3.5.3: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Daniel59

OMG how is that possible?

I just now checked with my friend system there too it shows 3.5.3 only.

I again checked the release notes and it says,

v.3.5.4 Beta (Build 1), released October 9, 2009
Thanks for participating in the Firefox Community Beta Program! Testing beta builds of Firefox helps ensure that they are secure and stable for hundreds of millions of users around the world.

http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.4/releasenotes/