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Firefox users ignore online ads
News Firefox users are significantly less likely to click on Web site adverts than Microsoft Internet Explorer users, a German advertising technology firm said last week. The firm, Adtech AG, found that during October and November only 0.11 percent of...
[December 6, 2004, 16:55]
Firefox users ignore online ads
Talkback That's mainly because we firefox users are also savvy enough to fix up our hosts files to kill off third-party advertising sites. We don't even need Adbock. ZDNet in particular looks so great! No ads at all!
[December 7, 2004, 11:29]
Firefox users ignore online ads
Talkback "Another reason could be that Firefox users tend to be more likely to click on targeted ads rather than other types! Firefox users are not clicking on targeted ads any more than any other kind of ad. This isn't necessarily because FF users are more...
[December 7, 2004, 13:35]
Firefox users ignore online ads
Talkback that's because FireFox users are savvy, not the monggy type that accept what's given to them.
[December 6, 2004, 23:34]
Firefox users ignore online ads
Talkback As firefox gets more popular ads will become less clicked on and even less clicked on when users find out how do use adblock. When you install the firefox adblock entension you can just right click on an ad and block the whole domain like...
[December 7, 2004, 1:51]
Netcraft extends phishing protection to Firefox users
News Internet services company Netcraft has released a version of its toolbar for Firefox. The Firefox toolbar runs on any operating system supported by Firefox and is available for free download from Netcraft.
[May 26, 2005, 10:35]
Google enhances search for Firefox users
News Google has added a new feature to its search engine that allows Firefox users to obtain search results more quickly. A few Firefox users have expressed concern about this feature on the Mozillazine site.
[March 31, 2005, 17:40]
Firefox users ignore online ads
Talkback Exactly, and plus it has many more extensions. I dont' really see a future for advertising on the internet.
[December 7, 2004, 9:57]
Firefox users ignore online ads
Talkback Get the "Adblock" extension from mozilla.org for Firefox and say goodbye to adds forever.
[December 7, 2004, 6:58]
Firefox users ignore online ads
Talkback If tivo did for TV advertising, perhaps firefox is the nets Tivo. This does spell an interesting situation for the apparent bucketloads of cash people are making off of clickthroughs.
[December 10, 2004, 9:18]
Google enhances search for Firefox users
Talkback This is still not as good as XtraGoogle.com
[April 1, 2005, 7:08]
Mozilla coaxes Firefox users to latest version
News A month-and-a-half after Mozilla issued a significant update to its open-source web browser, the organisation has begun encouraging users of Firefox 3 to install version 3.5. Firefox 3.0.13 users will see an offer to download the latest iteration...
[August 17, 2009, 16:11]
Microsoft cursor flaw may affect Firefox users
News Sotirov said that installing the MS07-017 patch would protect both Internet Explorer and Firefox users against the .ani stack overflow vulnerability, and that he would delay releasing exploit code that could be used against people using Firefox on...
[April 4, 2007, 14:02]
Google enhances search for Firefox users
Talkback Final Result: It's already fast enough. Faster won't help anymore. Forget about pre-fetch feature.
[April 1, 2005, 16:25]
Firefox gains 30m users in eight weeks
Talkback This is not surprising, as people are becoming more concerned about security, and the lack of it in IE.
[October 28, 2009, 10:37]
Linux users warned about Firefox flaw
Talkback You needn't use AOL's Poxfire, the unholy spawn of Microsoft's front-stabbing and AOL's back-stabbing of Netscape, now that the Opera browser is freeware. Yeah, it's better!
[September 22, 2005, 20:51]
Linux users warned about Firefox flaw
Talkback Ok. EXTREMELY CRITICAL? Come on - even if code were run in your shell, it would still only be run as a user, and the damage would be contained to a single user's files. So you lose a few mp3s or a .rc file or two.
[September 22, 2005, 19:23]
Linux users warned about Firefox flaw
News Users running Firefox on Linux may be vulnerable to a security vulnerability that can be exploited to compromise the user's system. Security firm Secunia warned on Tuesday that a flaw rated as "extremely critical" has been found in Firefox 1.0.6.
[September 21, 2005, 17:10]
Ask Jeeves takes Firefox plunge
News Ask Jeeves, which already had the toolbar for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, said the toolbar would allow users of the Mozilla Foundation's Firefox web browser to perform Ask Jeeves searches through the Firefox interface, let them create...
[March 17, 2005, 15:30]
Mozilla: Patch Firefox now
News Firefox users have been urged to update their browser immediately after Mozilla, the organisation behind the popular browser, said it had fixed eight vulnerabilities in Firefox 2.0. Firefox users who have set their browser to receive automatic...
[December 20, 2006, 12:13]
