It is opt-out, of course, because an opt-in to browser tracking would require universal cooperation from all industry players to stay out of our computers unless invited.
In addition to the basic open-source components, the browser has also been augmented with out-of-the-box plug-ins, including the latest versions of Adobe FlashTM and a PDF reader.
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In perhaps the most aggressive example of tying, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) was accused of trying to snuff out rival Netscape by giving a competing Web browser away for free.
The design of the physical device gets out of the way of the gadget's software--which lets it morph from being a Web browser to a media player to a phone and back again.
They also, in a smart bit of PR, launched a browser plug-in for Twitter users who wanted to strip out any mention of SXSW from their social media stream during March this year.
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This instructs a web-browser how to lay out the contents of a page, but does not tell the computer what the page is describing.
Already one of the top free apps on Android Market, with more than 50, 000 users giving it a 4.5-out-of-5 star rating, Flash Player 10.1 brings rich Flash based content to mobile devices inside the browser.
Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) Internet Explorer.
Mozilla's definitely on track with its bigger goal: taking a big bite out of Microsoft 's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) browser monopoly.
This is because mobile ads that force people out of an app and take them to a clunky web browser offer a sub-optimal user experience.
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Clark, Andreessen and a group of programmers created and sold the first widely marketed and user-friendly Internet browser, mapping out the World Wide Web, beating Microsoft to the punch, and making themselves millionaires in the process.
If you liked the trial, you'll love the judge's greatest-hits collection of Microsoft skullduggery: binding its Internet Explorer browser into Windows just to beat out Netscape, bullying Intel into staying out of the software market, polluting Sun Microsystems' Java programming language to diminish the competitive threat it posed to Windows, threatening IBM.
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