The current trend for
privacy-enhancing technologiesfor surveillance in web browsers are going to be remembered as a technical dead end, an artifact of an unsustainable advertising oligopoly.
Don Martin has 10 succinct points on why users (aka we) don’t actually want so-called Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) … some technical, some social, some economic.
Gregory Szorc from Mozilla has put together a great comparison of all the top browser’s synchronization features with regard to security and privacy.
I talked about how Chrome Beta for Android makes itself feel so snappy.
Well Tony Gentilcore from Google has more details.
I just installed Chrome Beta for Android and I must say it’s slick. It’s fast and its UI gets out of the way. Their solution for tab switching is nice too. It will keep as many tabs open as possible, it it needs to free space, it will save a screenshot and unload the tab. If you switch back you will see the screenshot while the page reloads in the background … nice trick I must say. 🙂
I hope Firefox Mobile can catch up with those tricks. Especially at start up. It seems Chrome uses the same trick for start up too. It must be, because it does not use Android’s built in browser engine so it must load its own at startup and this is no small piece … but they have solved this very well … kudos.
