July 14, 2011
"As a user of BrowserID, you confirm your email addresses once. Then, you can sign into any web site that supports BrowserID with just two clicks."

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From BrouserID website.

It needs a better website design, please. Besides that stating that is an open source experiment is basically a call so nobody treats the idea seriously (it’s an experiment after all).

I’m sceptical (at best).

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May 19, 2010
"Browser fingerprinting is a powerful technique, and fingerprints must be considered alongside cookies and IP addresses when we discuss web privacy and user trackability,” said Eckersley. “We hope that browser developers will work to reduce these privacy risks in future versions of their code."

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From Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net.

And, in the other hand, we have Facebook users. Funny, isn’t it?

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August 6, 2009
Free Software Alternatives to Browsing the Web from Linux Seems that the world doesn’t end with Firefox and Gecko (its rendering engine). There are other options, and two that I didn’t know and look promising are: Arora: QtWebKit based, with the WebKit rendering engine. It’s stable and supports, among others, the Flash plugin (that is as clumsy as running with Firefox). It uses the Qt toolkit. Midori: WebKit rendering engine again, but this time using GTK+ toolkit. Maybe it’s not as mature as Arora, but looks pretty good and definitely it’s worth keeping an eye on it. I’m using Firefox 3.5, and since the memory consumption it’s not an issue for me, I’m fine with it. Arora looks and feels great, but I’m staying with Firefox by now. At the moment my only issue with Firefox 3.x is that Zimbra 4.x doesn’t work with it, and I need to have a backup installation of Firefox 2.x. Neither Arora nor Midori works fine with Zimbra 4.x (both use WebKit, remember).

Free Software Alternatives to Browsing the Web from Linux

Seems that the world doesn’t end with Firefox and Gecko (its rendering engine). There are other options, and two that I didn’t know and look promising are:

  • Arora: QtWebKit based, with the WebKit rendering engine. It’s stable and supports, among others, the Flash plugin (that is as clumsy as running with Firefox). It uses the Qt toolkit.
  • Midori: WebKit rendering engine again, but this time using GTK+ toolkit. Maybe it’s not as mature as Arora, but looks pretty good and definitely it’s worth keeping an eye on it.

I’m using Firefox 3.5, and since the memory consumption it’s not an issue for me, I’m fine with it. Arora looks and feels great, but I’m staying with Firefox by now.

At the moment my only issue with Firefox 3.x is that Zimbra 4.x doesn’t work with it, and I need to have a backup installation of Firefox 2.x. Neither Arora nor Midori works fine with Zimbra 4.x (both use WebKit, remember).

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