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Porn collection put people off upgrading to Firefox 3

67 pointsby jedliualmost 16 years ago

6 comments

michael_dorfmanalmost 16 years ago
There's a nice object lesson here about fully understanding the impact of a system change on your users. Making things "better" for them often isn't.
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growtalmost 16 years ago
firefox 3's location bar is a mess, not just because of this issue. It will suggest me a gmail authentication string for almost all of my inputs. There are lots of ways to do this better. I like chromes way of doing it, but it has some privacy issues.
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Percevalalmost 16 years ago
I wrote a proposal for an extension that could passively solve the porn+awesomebar problem in the same way that AdBlock Plus passively solves the ad blocking problem. Since I am not a coder, I can’t whip up an alpha proof of concept, but perhaps someone else can take a crack at it. (I pitched it to Wladimir Palant a while back, but he wasn’t interested).<p><a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/2/5/43412/24669" rel="nofollow">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2009/2/5/43412/24669</a><p>Apparently, there are already hooks in userChrome.css that allow preventing results from appearing in the awesomebar on a per URL basis:<p><a href="http://ed.agadak.net/2009/02/hiding-history-with-userchrome" rel="nofollow">http://ed.agadak.net/2009/02/hiding-history-with-userchrome</a>
paul9290almost 16 years ago
Porn is that important to that many??? Just use the google search to go to such websites! The people they are trying to hide it from obviously are not tech savvy and won't know what cache is or where to find it.
ilyakalmost 16 years ago
make it turnoffable!
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kqr2almost 16 years ago
Firefox private browsing aka porn mode:<p><a href="http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Firefox_s_Private_Browsing__AKA__Porn_Mode__Arrives" rel="nofollow">http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Firefox_s_Private_Browsing__AK...</a>
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