Ideas on Terms for Shared Firefox Data
The Prospector team covers 4 topics of setting terms of use on shared Firefox data: rewarding good behavior, using data non-transactionally, increasing transparency, and creating contracts. Continue reading
Posts from October, 2012
about:trackers – Protecting Shared Firefox Data
The Prospector team has a proof-of-concept experiment about:trackers to explore the idea of users setting terms of use for shared Firefox data. Mozilla can provide sensible defaults for users as well as help them make sure web sites comply with the user’s terms with tools like cookie blocking or connection blocking. Continue reading
Update on Firefox Marketplace
Modern browsers based on open standards (like Firefox) enable developers to create amazing Web applications and websites. Mozilla is rapidly increasing the capabilities of the browser platform, which means developers can build more and more of their applications using Web … Continue reading
Improving Firefox with Locally Analyzed Data
The Prospector team explores ideas about using locally analyzed Firefox data to improve browsing experience such as navigation aids with highlighted interests and Firefox-facilitated sharing of summarized data to websites. Continue reading
about:profile – Analyzing Data in Firefox
The Prospector team has a proof-of-concept experiment about:profile, which analyzes data stored locally to an instance of Firefox, to start a conversation about different ways to analyze the data with the goal of improving Firefox while supporting Mozilla’s principles of openness and user privacy. Continue reading