The internet is a widespread network of information, contacts, and connections. Every important web service that you have used, have tracked your progress and analyzed your choices to understand the best recourse to help you.

However, not many people are aware of this continual progress of tracking technology. Every prominent search engine, your computer brands and even the day-to-day applications that you use, need to have access to your live actions on the web.

While you might not be able to understand the full extent of the technical process at play, Mozilla’s collusion is a new add-on feature that can at least help you understand the reverse procedure of your progress check by other services.

How Collusion Functions?

Collusion keeps a steady track of the entire website URLs that you visit throughout the day. It further creates an analytical pictograph of the sites that are tracking you, the steps in their tracking and your actions that speeds up this process.

All this information is collected, analyzed and represented in real time (with a deficit range of seconds), thus giving you a healthy head start in  removing the tabs on your actions and making sure that your vital information do not get in to the wrong circles.

Downloading & Installing  Collusion

The procedure necessary to equip your browser with this feature is as simple as downloading the setup and going through standard installation steps.

Just go to the official Firefox website and click on the Collusion Add-on button to start the setup download.

When you are re-directed to the collusion download page, you will also find important reviews by some of the people who have already used the feature and shared their experiences.

Some of these are more adept than others in the technological aspects but most of them are regular users and the common comment has been about the ease of using the feature.

On getting to the download page, you will see a bright (yellow) button”+Add to Firefox”. Pressing this button will start the downloading process while you peruse the reviews.

Once the downloading process is complete, run the setup. Within seconds, you will be informed of successful installation. This will prompt automatic launching of the add-on.

In a rare case, if the add on does not launch automatically, go to the Firefox browser menu (top left corner), select Add-Ons option and under this enable Collusion.

Collusion is Beneficial to the Average Users

The biggest draw to this feature is the amount of transparency afforded to normal web users, even those who do not have much of a hold on the technological intricacies.

The visualization process of the pictographs, complete with linked cookies showing the exact path taken to track your steps on the Internet, is definitely a vital step towards alerting users making them more aware and in turn safer.

Most of these tracking are without consent and apart from aiding advertisers and sales databases (which is a fair nuisance); they might also be a vital tool for the wrong kind of crowd (in some cases).

Technology is developing fast and this is an approach to encourage the trend of personalization (even of your online life).

Mozilla Firefox – The popular web browser offers a new face after going through the renovation that took more than three months. The fierce competition among major browsers Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox necessitates renovation to attract new visitors and to retain existing users.

Web browsers are expected to present information as posted on the native web server pages. The browser should offer enough security by being able to block unwanted or hazardous codes.

The team working on Mozilla Firefox has taken not only major overhaul but also the addition of new features. Let us have more insight on these developments.

Sync Profile Preferences across Computers

The renovated Mozilla Firefox offers better performance than an earlier version. The ‘add-on to Firefox Sync’ will let you use the same settings that you have chosen on your computer at workplace.

The settings will be synchronized automatically with your home computer helping you not repeat the same set of installation procedure on the home computer. This feature is convenient and saves your valuable time. Users will be free from worries about ‘maximum version compatibility’.

The new ‘add-ons to Firefox Sync’ will ensure that the browser will be complied for 80% compatibility automatically.

New Mozilla Firefox’s Edge over other Browsers

The measures taken to beat the competition from rival Google Chrome and Internet Explorer are new HTML5 media controls, improvised web tools and developer friendly features. As per the new changes, the Firefox browser is not required to restart after installing minor changes.

The Firefox team is working on ways to present unique tab feature and to present attractive home tab. Some of the new features include the measures to improve private search by which privacy concerns will be addressed.

Silent upload, automatic session restore and panel based download manager are other new features which are being rolled out with new Firefox version.

The options menu will be integrated into main menu instead of the current way of display that is through ‘popup menu’. New Firefox will be having Windows 8 friendly features.

There will be improvements in the way scripts are processed. The browser will be enhanced to catch up the social networking revolution. Email based identification system much in the lines of Google Chrome will be launched.

User based log system will allow the possibility to download user specific settings such as bookmarks, passwords and add-ons from secured websites.

Mozilla Firefox rated Next to Google Chrome

In the current scenario, there are five browsers that are occupying the major chunk of users. Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari are the major browsers used by majority of online visitors across the world.

As per the studies, Google Chrome tops the list in terms of performance in various factors. The factors considered are JavaScript processing speed, CPU usage, CSS rendering speed, page load time and browser cache performance.

While Google Chrome tops the list in the overall performance, Mozilla Firefox stands in second place. Interestingly, ‘Not Responding’ incidences are more with Internet Explorer than Mozilla Firefox.

Internet explorer being the default browser of the windows based operating systems gives the advantage for its usage and adoption.

The requirement of modern browsers is fast and efficient performance. It’s not only user-friendly features and appearance but also the ability to load pages faster and process various kinds of requests in real-time that makes the difference.

Users should have better control on the way they want to use a browser. Mozilla Firefox is marching ahead to keep us this pace!