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Facebook and mobile browsing: Pretty much the same thing

2013-04-03 19:52:54| CNET News.com

Consumers, according to researcher Flurry, spend about 30 minutes per day inside Facebook's mobile application, which is more time than they spend with any one mobile browser. [Read more]

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Mozilla refines Firefox's private browsing, patches 13 browser bugs

2013-04-03 14:17:09| InfoWorld: Top News

Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 20, adding more flexible private browsing and patching 13 vulnerabilities, five rated "critical" by the company's security team. Along with the privacy change, Mozilla also revamped Firefox's download manager and added a crash tool that warns when a plug-in has hung for at least 11 seconds. Users can then shut down the offending plug-in rather than rebooting the browser.

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Firefox 20 ups HTML5 support, adds dev tools and per-tab Private Browsing

2013-04-02 22:10:25| InfoWorld: Top News

Mozilla has rolled out Version 20 of Firefox, offering new privacy enhancements for users and some goodies for developers, such as a handy toolbox, more unlocked HTML5 features, and support for getUserMedia for writing code to access users' cameras and microphones. Android users, too, benefit from the update through increased support for devices running on the less-powerful ARMv6 processors.

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The 404 1,235: Where we charge you just for browsing (podcast)

2013-03-26 19:44:29| CNET News.com

Remember all the mislabeled mp3s that cropped up on filesharing sites in the 90s? Turns out they're weren't harmless pranks, but rather a nefarious plan to end P2P using a clandestine network of "Napster bombs" and Trojan Horses. [Read more]

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