FireFox becoming Google-like? - 01/10/20 03:51 PM
I have (had) both Safari and FireFox installed on my computer. I almost never use FireFox except once in a while if a site doesn’t work with Safari….which has become a very rare occurrence.
This morning, in my Cookie App, I had a look at the Website names under Firefox and found, among others, these two.
chrome with 10 tracking cookies
screenshots@mozilla.org with 1 tracking cookie
They were not checked off as Favorites, so I tried to remove them. It was not possible. They could not be removed either by using “Remove Non-Favorites†or by selecting them individually and using “Removeâ€.
They could not be removed by loading FireFox and then shutting it down….the automaticity that works with with Safari. And, they clearly were not phased by the every 5 minutes cookie clear-out that I use. In the end, I used CleanApp to remove everything FireFox from my drive.
I really dislike when an application decides that it has a right to track me, and I particularly dislike it when the app is one like FireFox....an app that should be trustworthy.
This morning, in my Cookie App, I had a look at the Website names under Firefox and found, among others, these two.
chrome with 10 tracking cookies
screenshots@mozilla.org with 1 tracking cookie
They were not checked off as Favorites, so I tried to remove them. It was not possible. They could not be removed either by using “Remove Non-Favorites†or by selecting them individually and using “Removeâ€.
They could not be removed by loading FireFox and then shutting it down….the automaticity that works with with Safari. And, they clearly were not phased by the every 5 minutes cookie clear-out that I use. In the end, I used CleanApp to remove everything FireFox from my drive.
I really dislike when an application decides that it has a right to track me, and I particularly dislike it when the app is one like FireFox....an app that should be trustworthy.