Friday, February 10th, 2012 9:56 am

Firefox 4: Control over online tracking

Mountain View (ip-192.com): Mozilla’s upcoming Firefox 4.0 will focus on online privacy and eventually allow users to opt-out of advertising based on sites visited. Users will have more control over online tracking and use a "Do Not Track HTTP header" to broadcast their desire to keep their data private. The header will be send with [...]

Google launches interactive Body Browser

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): A new Google experiment called Google Body Browser launched on Thursday. The service similar to Google Earth helps users to explore the human body. The Body Browser offers a three-dimensional, multi-layered of a female body. The new service uses WebGL to explore the human anatomy. Since the programmatic interface for 3D graphics [...]

F1: Firefox social networking extension

Mountain View (ip-192.com): A new extension to Mozilla’s Firefox browser allows users to share content through social networks. F1 will automatically shorten URL’s using bit.ly and insert it into tweets, allowing users to update their status on Twitter in one single step. For Facebook, the extension takes a screenshot and description of the page users [...]

Web: Google Chrome moves to third place

Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Chrome continues to shine and is now the third most popular browser in the U.S., according to StatCounter, a web analytics company. Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) is still leading. Combining all versions of IE, Microsoft has a market share of 52 percent, followed by Mozilla's Firefox (28.5 percent). Chrome passed Apple's [...]