Fear of Porn URL Exposure Discourages Firefox 3 Upgrade

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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Re:Browse safely

[hpoul]

umm.. isn't that the whole point of being insured in the first place - everybody pays an "equal" amount of money, most people will be happy if they don't need it.. but for the off chance that you need it, there is enough money available to be paid out.

if only those who *need* it would pay into an insurance.. there is no need for an insurance anyway .. so why the hell are you insured, since you are one of the lucky guys, who will never need it.