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Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade

Posted by timothy on from the porn-mode-incomplete-until-it's-a-separate-browser dept.

Barence writes "Mozilla's Security team has disclosed a very interesting piece of research which suggests people refused to upgrade to Firefox 3 because they were afraid the browser would expose their porn collection. Mozilla's research found that the number one reason for not upgrading was the new location bar, and the fact that it delved into people's bookmark collections to suggest sites as they typed. 'When we expanded the capabilities of the location bar to search against all history and bookmarks in Firefox 3, a lot of people contacted us to say that they had certain bookmarks they didn't really want to have displayed,' Firefox's principal designer, Alex Faaborg, tactfully explains. 'In some cases users had intentionally hidden these bookmarks in deep hierarchies of folders, somewhat similar to how one might hide a physical object.'"

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  1. Browse safely by 0racle · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's why I use IE.

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    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
    1. Re:Browse safely by AlphaBit · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's why I use IE.

      "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are"

      Your ability to combine those two statements into a single post makes you one of the most irresistable trolls I've seen...

    2. Re:Browse safely by commodore64_love · · Score: 5, Funny

      If two Anonymous Cowards speak to one another, does anyone hear them?

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      "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  2. Wait...what? There's PORN on the Internet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why didn't someone tell me about this sooner? I wouldn't have wasted all this time on Slashdot, Digg, and Fark.

  3. Re:To be more specific by WED+Fan · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why don't we have a mod for "I'm obviously lying, but here's my story anyway..."?

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    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
  4. Re:To be more specific by mcbutterbuns · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe if you're married & have children you shouldn't be looking at porn, then you wouldn't have that problem...

    Wrong. Maybe you just need a wife and children who are into porn as well. Having a healthy sex drive is not a fault.

    There, fixed that for you.

  5. Re:To be more specific by geminidomino · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...not related to age but to how far a stick is up their rectum.

    Hey, if that's what they're into, who are you to judge?

  6. Re:To be more specific by Delkster · · Score: 5, Funny

    where's the porn-block extension for autocomplete?

    Or a porn-get extension with autocomplete?