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Shuttleworth defends Firefox license in Ubuntu

Monday, September 15th, 2008

Canonical’s CEO Mark Shuttleworth has explained the presence of a Firefox 3.0 end-user license agreement in Intrepid Ibex, following developer complaints. Mark Shuttleworth, whose company, Canonical, funds the Ubuntu operating system, has stepped in to try to resolve a dispute on Ubuntu developer’s forum Launchpad. …
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Google bows to keystroke privacy concerns

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

To quell privacy fears, Google says IP addresses and other data stored through use of Google Suggest will be rendered anonymous within a day. See all ZDNet Chrome coverage. Google says it will anonymize user data received through search requests entered in the company’s search engine…
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Five reasons why Chrome will crash and burn

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the…
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Five reasons Chrome will take over the world

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google dipped its mighty toe into the increasingly crowded world of internet browsers today with the announcement of its open source offering, Chrome. After all the polished promises of a streamlined new way to tame the web, the blogosphere was ready to predict Chrome would inspire everything from the…
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Mozilla launches Snowl messaging prototype

Friday, August 8th, 2008

The prototype Firefox extension will bring unified messaging to the open-source browser, if early experiments are promising. Mozilla has launched a prototype messaging Firefox extension that it says could eventually enable users to keep track of all of their electronic communications, including email, RSS, social networks and…
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Netscape wins one month from executioner

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

AOL has extended support for its once popular Netscape browser by a month, to March 1. AOL has extended support for its Netscape browser by a month, to March 1. AOL first announced in December it was ending support for the once popular browser on February 1,…
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Acid2, Acid3, and the power of default

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

Opera CTO Håkon Wium Lie asks how seriously Microsoft’s Web browser will support an upcoming Web standards test. Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly. …
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