Firefox To Stop Advertisers From Tracking You, Speed Up Loading In Windows

The makers of Firefox have been busy lately, proposing and possibly implementing two features that some users will see as big improvements. For the privacy-conscious crowd, a proposal to implement better controls behaviourial targeting, including an option to block advertisers’ abilities to follow you around the web entirely.

Also up, and likely coming soon, is a trick that speeds up Windows start-up considerably by pre-loading DLLs in larger chunks, and therefore saving slower hard drives the crunch of shuttling over necessary files in multiple, tiny chunks. Both are big wins, though it remains to be seen how site owners would respond to the behavioural blocking option.

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