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Firefox has 20% market share, might steal more from Safari with “porn mode”

Ernst-Jan Written on 5th November 2008                                                                                                              5 COMMENTS some text
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

“It’s Official” , triumphs the Mozilla blog, “Congratulations to the Mozilla community for reaching this historic milestone”. According to Net Applications, Firefox surpassed 20% worldwide market share. During the week of October 5th, 20 percent of Internet users browsed with the open source browser.

Firefox has 20% market share, might steal more from Safari with porn mode

Watch your back Safari

Firefox has 20% market share, might steal more from Safari with porn modeThe Firefox browser might steal some market share from Safari, as Apple’s browser will soon lose its greatest advantage for male Mac users. As I mentioned earlier, a friend of mine once told me he uses Safari’s stealth mode for his adult needs. Well, it seems like he can stay within the Firefox environment for that now.

Firefox released a beta version of a Private Browsing feature. Users of Minefield, Mozilla’s test area for new browser innovations, can now activate the “porn mode”. When toggled, it deletes your Web history, user names, passwords, searches, and cookies and bins as soon as you close the window, “effectively making it appear that the session never existed” – writes Josh Lowensohn from Webware.

About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

5 comments/trackbacks to “Firefox has 20% market share, might steal more from Safari with “porn mode””

  1. Nov 10, 2008: Happy birthday Firefox!

    [...] 5 days ago we told you that Firefox had a 20% market share. Yesterday the Mozilla Foundation announced that Firefox turned 4! Only 4? It feels so much more, [...]

  1. By Remy Lebeau on Nov 6, 2008

    does it remember to delete the flash cookies?

    Reply

  2. By Shaun on Nov 7, 2008

    And there I was thinking Safari’s biggest advantage over Firefox was it’s support for more standards, blazing fast javascript and an interface that doesn’t feel like it’s a Linux app pretending to be a Mac app.

    Quite odd that I feel slightly dirty using Firefox on a Mac when ‘your friend’ uses Safari for porn.

    Reply

    By Ernst-Jan Pfauth on November 7th, 2008:

    your first paragraph sounds like a great start for a guest post. Please drop me a line if you’re interested in writing one! ernst-jan@thenextweb.org

    PS. hope this post didn’t cause a permanent FF trauma for you, really.

    Reply

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