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Firefox for mobile ‘days away’ from launch
Dec 22nd
The first mobile phone version of the popular web browser Firefox is “days away” from launch, the head of the project has told the BBC.The browser, codenamed Fennec, will initially be available for Nokia’s N900 phone, followed by other handsets.It is currently going through final testing and could be released before the end of the year, said Jay Sullivan at Mozilla, the group behind Firefox.The open-source browser will be able to synchronise with the desktop version. Software will mean that any web pages open in a user’s desktop browser will automatically open in the mobile version.
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Firefox prefers Bing than Google
Dec 16th
Mozilla director of community development Asa Dotzler – co-founder of the original Firefox project – has encouraged Firefox users to switch their search engine from Google to Microsoft Bing in the wake of Eric Schmidt’s now infamous words on net privacy.
In an interview aired by CNBC on Sunday, the Google boss insisted that anyone who worries about Mountain View retaining personal data must be guilty of improper behavior. “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place,” he said.
“If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines – including Google – do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.”
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