[ShadowAce]

[fwdude]

I like Firefox. Unless some tech geek FReepers have a good demonstrable reason to be against it, I’ll continue using it.

[null and void]

I use Firefox, I like it, I recommend it, and I will continue to use and support it, this up is down, left is right, dark is light propaganda not withstanding.

[GeronL]

Freedom is Slavery Alliance?

This IAB sounds like something out of a communist propaganda bureau somewhere. Or even a parody of one.

[UCANSEE2]

The Digital Advertising Alliance's self-regulatory program(me) gets you this.

The open source, you're in control aspects of Firefox get the owners one of these.

[exPBRrat]

Advertising is getting so intrusive, vulgar, loud, and minefield-like my wife wont buy anything she remembers as ‘advertised’....and that goes for me too. We have so few opportunities to vote with our pocketbook today you have to take advantage of the few left.

[Salgak]

I’m guessing that the IAB feels that since the GOVERNMENT can monitor everything, they need to get in on the action.

In the meantime, in your “Privacy” options, you can turn third-party cookies off manually right now. But the default setting accepts them. . .now.

All Mozilla is doing is changing the default option to “do not accept third-party cookies”. And the advertisers are having hissy fits worthy of Obama himself!!!

[TomGuy]

The last least problematic FF version I have found is 15.0.1.

After 15.0.1, Flash conflicted, add-ons conflicted, PDF files would not download, etc.

I tried the ESR version. I tried the FF22-Portable.

Each one had it own set of conflicts with other things.

Mozilla rapid release insanity is creating a browser that used to be good but it now more buggy than Netscape 4.7 was.

[wardaddy]

I don’t mind it...i go between it and chrome

hate googles influence though

[BenLurkin]

I’ve noticed that some news sites, such as many in AUstralia, will not permit reading content without allowing cookies.

It strikes me as VERY odd.

[oh8eleven]

so-called "third party" cookies.
If you set your browser to "never save history" - ALL cookies will be deleted when you close the browser.

[Utilizer]

Meh. I dunno. Opera works just fine and does not lock up as much as firefox, but then again it has progressed to the point where when I check the hsys logs it now uses about the same amount of resources, which seem to have kept on increasing as the newer revs were released. Faster generally than firefox and much less likely to lock up the system, I use it for the majority of all browsing. It has options for the disposition of cookies and caches according to your preferences.

Firefox is better for flash-type media such as youtube and downloading vids, but more prone to crash or lock up than opera as well as causing the rest of the system to stumble. Probably because so many websites are loading up with more and more bloody annoying graphics and popup ads, not to mention trackers and site statistic analyzers for marketing analysis. Now if I can just find a decent website provider that will not make unrealistic demands when I try to establish a homepage...

[Still Thinking]

Yes, the IAB is definitely living in a parallel universe - one where people have actually come across this Digital Advertising Alliance's self-regulatory program(me). Because I can honestly say that in nearly 20 years of wandering the Web, and far too many hours spent online every day (as my Twitter, identi.ca and G+ followers know only too well), I have never encountered this fabled Digital Advertising Alliance's self-regulatory program(me), much less know how to use it to control the ads I receive. And if I find myself in this woeful state of ignorance, that rather suggests that not many other people using the Internet have come across or use the Digital Advertising Alliance's self-regulatory program(me) either (has any reader come across it, I wonder?)

Well, a voluntary system established by the advertisers doesn't really count, and for a couple reasons. It was probably written to advance the interests of those who paid the writers, and since you didn't write it, that's not YOU. How do you know that the "opt out" provision isn't just playing dumb about the ads it sends you while still invading your privacy just as much as before? In fact, privacy protection should be on the UPstream end of the pipe, not the downstream end, where they already are in possession of the information and simply promise to ignore it. Yeah, right. Second, what the hell is with everyone assuming they have the right to create default-in opt-OUT systems? Who are they to be creating an additional burden on people who simply want what they always had in the first place? Make the people who feel there's value in the spying to sign up. Why shouldn't the people "benefiting" be the ones to put out additional effort, rather than those who just want to be left alone?

[OneVike]

So am I to believe that Mozilla has become more powerful and influential than Google, of whom we have already been told is trying to control the internet?

One must put this all in perspective, because 10 years ago I remember the news was that Microsoft was trying to control the internet, and before Microsoft it was yahoo.

Personally, I think the one’s trying to control the internet are the ones who control the government. Regardless of which party, or which politician is in power at the time.

[Revolting cat!]

One big flaw of the Internet and the browsers is that they are allowed to not only write to your private computer, but also read what others have written, all of that without your permission or knowledge. You say that’s the price you pay? Hell, most people with computers don’t even know that it is the price they pay, as watchers of the idiot box would know that having to put up with commercials is the price they pay.

And hey, nobody is “paying my way” by buying the products advertised, while I go to the kitchen to fetch another bottle of Staropramen. As one of my college profs edumacated me, the TV stations don’t sell me anything, after all I’m not paying them $$$ (over the air TV, for argument’s sake) what they sell and collect real money for from the advertisers is my time, D’UH!