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Truth on the Market
We Measured Europe’s Browser Revolution. Bring a Magnifying Glass.
By Eric Fruits
Europe’s browser revolution appears to have left most browsers exactly where it found them. The European Commission is celebrating a “surge” in alternatives. The browsing data suggest a ripple. In…
Truth on the Market
If at First Consumers Don’t Switch, Regulate Again
By Lazar Radic
Under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), consumers are apparently sovereign—right up until they choose the wrong thing. When Mozilla reports that Firefox is now selected through a DMA browser-choice screen…
Explorations with Information and Technology
A Wander Among Web Browsers
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 8 minutes I have been watching some online colleagues in Denmark engage in a massive withdrawal from US-based technology. #DanmarkSkifter It has encouraged me to continue along this…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Anthropic’s Claude AI discovered 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox in 20 minutes!
By Peter Vogel
SCWorld.com reported that “Mozilla patched 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox that were discovered by Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 AI model. Anthropic said Friday that Claude discovered the first vulnerability, a use-after-free in Firefox’s…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Dashboard Detectives: How Connected Cars Turn Drivers Into Data
Anyone who has purchased a car in the past decade is familiar with the dazzling wave of technology that greets them: giant touchscreens, voice controls, remote start apps. But behind…
Explorations with Information and Technology
An Archive of My Ohhh Noooo…
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 5 minutes Mozilla has brought Pocket to an end, an acquisition it made in 2017. Although it was an award-winning read later app, Mozilla felt “the way people…
Explorations with Information and Technology
The Plague of Document Formats
By David Whelan
Reading Time: 4 minutes I was downloading a government form the other day and it told me that I would need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Umm, I don’t think so.…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Thunderbird and Firefox
Mozilla recently released security updates to address known vulnerabilities in their Thunderbird and Firefox products. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is recommending that the patches be applied because…
Your IT Consultant
A New Browser Helps with ADHD
By John Simek
Let it never be said that users don’t have choices for which browser to use. Edge, Chrome and Firefox are some of the most popular browsers. Lesser known browsers such…
Your IT Consultant
Firefox Update Keeps Ad-blockers Working
By John Simek
At the end of 2020, Google rolled out a platform for extensions in Chrome called Manifest V3. The goal was to make extensions less resource intensive and more secure. The…