Mozilla Recommends Bing Search Engine for Best Privacy »

When I saw the CNBC special ‘Inside the Mind of Google‘ I, like a lot of other people, was pretty surprised at Google’s statement about the privacy of users of its Search Engine:

If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines — including Google — do retain this information for some time…

O…..K. That is one way to answer the question, I… guess. Although that kind of elicits a surprised response similar to the dad that gets hit in the crotch when tossing a baseball for his kid’s batting practice.   (Google Bing it – its a hoot ).

Personally, I think it is slightly odd that Google would feel that way, especially when they don’t seem to respond the same way when the privacy tables are turned.

In a response, Mozilla is telling Firefox users to switch to Bing which is also surprising, since Mozilla has an agreement in place with Google through 2011.  I think that says a lot about how important Mozilla feels about privacy.

Rockmelt: Yet Another Web Browser »

Just when you thought the web browser market was saturated, someone found a spot where another one could be squeezed in.

Make a little room between Google Chrome and Opera and you can shoehorn RockMelt into the mix. Yes, another way for people to view web pages and possibly another set of standards for which web designers have to prepare.

Rockmelt does have some pretty good backing, however. Do you remember the Netscape browser from the 1990s? The founder of that company, Marc Anderson, is a backer of Rockmelt.

Not much is known about Rockmelt at the moment and their website only has a spot where you can provide your email address to be sent more information. So we will have to wait and see.

At any rate, it faces a pretty packed market that already includes the likes of Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and Flock and a few others.

Firefox Add-On Blocking Adsense »

If you use the Firefox Web browser and have the Adblock Plus add-on installed, you may have experienced some trouble when trying to access your Google Adsense account.

Evidently, I was not the only one experiencing this problem because Rajiv Sud posted about it on the Inside Adsense blog along with some suggested steps to take to fix the problem:

1. Clear your web browser cache
2. Clear your cookies
3. Turn off Adblock Plus
4. Visit Google Adsense login page

Check out the complete post for all the details.

Most Computer Attacks From US »

Symantec released its Internet Security Threat report last month and it contained some very interesting information with regarding the state of Internet security. Why should home computer users in the United States using Internet Explorer as their web browser pay particular attention?

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New Firefox Vulnerability Reported »

There has been a vulnerability found in the Firefox web browser that could allow a phishing web site [define Phishing] to appear authentic.

This but was posted by Michal Zalewski on Full Disclosure, a security mailing list . A phisher could potentially manipulate authentication cookies and that could cause a malicious web site to appear authentic to Firefox.

Since phishing attacks are so malicious, this is a pretty but vulnerability. Window Snyder is Mozilla’s security chief and says they will be addressing this flaw in Firefox version 2.0.0.2.

Snyder said that Mozilla has not heard of any exploits but they are working a quickly as possible to fix it. Until they do, if you are a user of Firefox, be careful of where you surf and make sure that you have Firefox automatic updates turned on so you will be patched as soon as a fix is released.

Alternatively, you could use Opera for your web browser or Internet Explorer.