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Mozilla Adds Do-Not-Track Feature To Firefox 4 Pre-Beta Builds

Posted by Soulskill on from the hitting-the-ground-running dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla cranked out a new version of Firefox 4 (Beta 11-pre) that includes the proposed do-not-track feature. Both the nightly builds and latest trunk builds integrate the do-not-track feature. You could accuse Mozilla of wasting time with Firefox 4 beta-testing, but this feature certainly has surfaced fast."

3 of 89 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It's great by Richard_at_work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Every browser in the world can support it, it means nothing if the websites do not honour it - and what reason do they have to honour it?

  2. Re:Beta by icebraining · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is a checkbox which adds a single static header to each request, it's too simple to delay FF4 in any way.

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  3. Re:It's great by bunratty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The more important point is that anyone who writes a web page can use inline pictures, frames, and blink just by editing their page with a text editor. Do not track requires web server support. I think most web developers do not have access to the configuration of the web server, and even if they do have access, they generally don't know how to configure it properly.

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