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Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

Krystalo writes: In addition to the debut of the Firefox Developer Edition, Mozilla today announced new features for its main Firefox browser. The company is launching a new Forget button in Firefox to help keep your browsing history private, adding DuckDuckGo as a search option, and rolling out its directory tiles advertising experiment.

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  1. Re:Bastards ... by jeepies · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you disable directory tiles on new tabs, the ads are also disabled.

  2. Re:Bastards ... by dejanc · · Score: 4, Informative

    It looks optional. I just updated and on directory tiles you get options: "Enhanced", "Classic" and "Blank". I don't see a difference between Enhanced and Classic but I am going to guess that Classic is ad free.

    Anyway, why be so negative about this? People at Mozilla provide a great browser and if that means you get to see some ads (that you can disable) every once in a while, what's the big deal? If they were injecting ads into pages you load, I would object, but seeing them on an otherwise empty page is as intrusive as default search engines they give you. Both things are perfectly fine.

  3. Re:Can't wait for this! by Luckyo · · Score: 3, Informative

    FYI: They fixed a lot of broken stuff in 25.0.1 and 25.0.2. If you haven't done so, you may want to check if your specific qualms have been fixed.