browsers

It's been six short weeks--less a day--since the official release of Firefox 7, but already the next version of Mozilla's popular Web browser is available for download.

Mozilla announced its first supporters for Do Not Track; one isn't an advertiser, the other isn't committed.

Google, Microsoft and Mozilla are competing to see who can come out with do-not-track features in browsers first; now about halting tracking at its source.

The reference model Google released for the ChromeOS PC makes it look a lot like a cheap netbook, and maybe compute like one, too. And it won't be here until summer. Wake me when it shows up. Or don't.

On Dec. 8, Google finally released a repository of extensions for Google Chrome. Chrome extensions numbered at more than 300 on launch day. Google Subnet blogger Julie Bort has scoured the extension library to come up with the ones that she thinks will boost your productivity at work. But she couldn't stop there.

A new browser extension lets people permanently opt out of online advertising that's based on their search queries and content they view on the Web.