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Mozilla Reponds - We Call the Shots, Not Google.

Posted by Zonk on from the two-great-tastes-fight-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Recent articles in the New York Times and at CNET have highlighted the growing concern that Google holds significant power and influence over Firefox's development. In an interview published today, Mozilla's technology strategist Mike Shaver did his best to proclaim Mozilla's independence. Yes, Google pays Mozilla $56 million per year, Google is the default search engine, and supplier of many of the browser's features (anti-phishing, anti-malware, incorrect URL resolution). Shaver insists that in spite of these ties, Mozilla still calls the shots over Firefox's development."

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  1. Google and Mozilla detest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Reponds is not a word. And I'd say that's a good direction to go in spell checking. Too bad /. disagrees.

  2. Why doesn't Firefox delete cookies by default? by rpp3po · · Score: 0, Troll

    Try this: Click "Tools" -> "Clear private data..." => Now notice that every removal option is checked but two: "Saved Passwords" and "Cookies".

    With all this intimate data which can be collected by tracing cookies sent to your browser, why in the hell doesn't a browser default to delete cookies if you tell it to "clear PRIVATE data"??? Well, maybe because Mozilla's top sponsor is intensively relying on cookies?

    I think this says all about who is" calling the shots" at Mozilla. It's cleary NOT the end user's interests.

  3. Re:Remove the defaults by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah. Everything should be an option. Sounds like you want SeaMonkey and not Firefox. Firefox ships with a set of defaults that we believe are best for the most users. Right now, and for the last five or six years, Google has been the best possible search for most of our users. Where it isn't, we'll change it (like we did for a year in Japan, China, and Korea with Yahoo as the default.) Yes. Everything should be an option. It should also be an option to use the superior WebKit engine instead of Gecko inside of Firefox (similar to IETab).
  4. Re:I was like that too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I say fuck you, twat.