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Mozilla Ends Sponsored Tile Ads Program in Firefox

December 7, 2015 at 4:43 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Mozilla Ends Sponsored Tile Ads Program in Firefox

Last May, Mozilla began offering sponsored tiles, which would appear on when someone started Firefox or opened a new tab.  Now, over half a year later, they are ending the program and will no longer sell sponsored tiles to advertisers.  Their reasoning behind the move is to “focus on content discovery.” Our learnings show that […]

Firefox Blocks All Flash Content by Default

July 14, 2015 at 5:20 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Firefox Blocks All Flash Content by Default

If you still use Flash elements on your website, despite the fact most mobile devices no longer display it, you have just received yet another sign that the end of Flash is near… Firefox will no longer display Flash content within their browser by default. This change also explains why you may have noticed Flash […]

Facebook Adds Video Insights for Facebook Pages

July 10, 2015 at 4:35 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Facebook Adds Video Insights for Facebook Pages

If you post videos to your Facebook Page, you will be happy to know that Facebook has added new Video Insights to their Insights tab. When viewing the Video Insights Page, it details the number of times your video was viewed for 3+ seconds, for 30+ seconds, and a third section that details the most […]

Firefox Launching Sponsored Tiles Based on Browsing History

May 22, 2015 at 4:38 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Firefox Launching Sponsored Tiles Based on Browsing History

Six months after Firefox launched “Enhanced Tiles”, they are introducing a similar product, but this time most users will be seeing them. The program is first being launched in Firefox Beta before being released to all users in the main Firefox product.  According to Techcrunch, they are mostly testing with in-house brand advertising, as you […]

Firefox for Android Not Displaying Mobile Friendly Tags

May 18, 2015 at 11:29 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Firefox for Android Not Displaying Mobile Friendly Tags

If you use Firefox for Android, you may have noticed that the Google search results are not displaying the usual “Mobile Friendly” tags that normally display before all mobile friendly search results. This screenshot was taken with the Firefox for Android app, with a version that hasn’t been updated to the newest release. It isn’t […]

Mozilla Announces Plans to Deprecate HTTP in Firefox

April 16, 2015 at 5:46 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Mozilla Announces Plans to Deprecate HTTP in Firefox

Just in case you need another reason to consider making the HTTPS switch for your websites, Mozilla has announced they have begun making steps to deprecate HTTP in Firefox.  This follows a move by Chrome to show warnings for unsecure websites. Mozilla has outlined the plan for HTTP deprecation here.  Here is their outlined schedule: […]

Firefox Pushes Users to Download Firefox for Android

April 8, 2015 at 4:26 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Firefox Pushes Users to Download Firefox for Android

When I updated Firefox this morning, I was presented with an interesting screen once the update was complete – a push to not just download Firefox for Android, but to simply just enter in my email address and they would send it straight to an Android device. This is another push by Firefox to encourage […]

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Will No Longer Trust Secure Certificates from CNNIC

April 3, 2015 at 4:54 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox Will No Longer Trust Secure Certificates from CNNIC

Both Google Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox will stop trusting new digital certificates that of the issued by China Internet Information Center (CNNIC) following last week’s breach that saw unauthorized security certificates for various Google URLs. In simple terms, CNNIC issued certificates to Egypt –based MCS Holdings in the name of various Google domains, which is […]

Yahoo’s Search Share Grew By Another 1.2% in January

February 19, 2015 at 3:46 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Yahoo’s Search Share Grew By Another 1.2% in January

Yahoo’s search market share continues to grow following the switch by Firefox from Google to Yahoo as the default search engine in their browser. Many people expected Yahoo’s search market share to start declining after the initial jump, as more users became aware that the default search they were using wasn’t actually Google. But in […]

Google Drops Below 75% of Desktop Searches, Yahoo overtakes Bing as Second Largest Search Engine

February 2, 2015 at 7:03 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Drops Below 75% of Desktop Searches, Yahoo overtakes Bing as Second Largest Search Engine

For the first time since July 2008, Google has dropped below 75% for their share of US desktop searches, losing ground to the Firefox driven Yahoo Search. Google now owns 73.67% of US desktop searches. In December, that number was 75.14%. It is worth noting that it’s a desktop searches where Google suffered this drop, […]

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