![]() AOL acquired Netscape Communications later that year, and when AOL scaled back its involvement with the Mozilla Organization in 2003, the Mozilla Foundation was launched to ensure the browser could survive without Netscape or AOL. In 1998, Netscape publicly released the source code for the latest version of its browser and created the Mozilla Organization to coordinate its development. The co-author of Mosaic, Marc Andreessen, co-founded Netscape Communications and was the lead developer of Netscape Navigator, which was first released in 1994 and based in part on NCSA Mosaic code. Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in 1992. In evaluating the Web browsers, we examine:įirefox descends from the very first graphical web browser, NCSA Mosaic. The availability and popularity of privacy plug-ins for Firefox such as AdBlock (which we discussed here), NoScript and Tor significantly augments the privacy management capabilities of Firefox beyond the capability currently baked into the browser. Future installments will cover Google’s Chrome 1.0, Apple’s Safari 4, and some of the more useful privacy plug-ins for browsers. We’ll make it clear which features are new to 3.1/3.5 and those which are shared with 3.0.7. ![]() This installment explores the privacy features in the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox 3, both the current 3.0.7 version and the second beta for the next release, 3.5 (NOTE – The name for the next version of Firefox was just changed from 3.1 to 3.5 to reflect the large number of changes, but the beta is still named 3.1 Beta 2). In the last installment, we covered the privacy features embedded in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 8. These tools and methods form an important part of a layered approach that we believe offers an effective alternative to government-mandated regulation of online privacy. ![]() As noted in the first installment of our “ Privacy Solution Series,” we are outlining various user-empowerment or user “self-help” tools that allow Internet users to better protect their privacy online-and especially to defeat tracking for online behavioral advertising purposes. ![]()
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