Zoho creates browser with 'Open Season Mode' for when you don't care about privacy India's Zoho has decided the world needs a more secure and private browser, so has created one called Ulaa. Zoho offers a personal productivity suite, but is best known for its CRM and for offering over 50 business applications that can link in an ERP-like – or perhaps ERP-lite – manner. The prices are very attractive compared …
> why would anyone use the open season mode
Obviously because they don't know they're using it, or even what it is!
Most people are no IT specialists, they barely even know their browser's brand, they just "click on stuff" to get to the 2-3 places they want to go. Put them once on Open Season, and they will gleefully keep using it till kingdom come...
To put it differently, those privacy features are most likely just a marketing stunt. Probably locked in the proverbial lavatory.
Following this website, the proper order is Chrome, Safari, Firefox. Edge comes after, somewhat bundled with Internet Explorer which doesn't deserve it, then you find Opera (which has .28% better share than IE).
Of course, if you go to a different site, the figures will be entirely different, and the order can change as well.
The one thing that doesn't change is that Chrome is always on top.
It really doesn't matter what the charts say today. For what seemed like forever IE6 ruled the roost with >90% share. Most web developers assumed that it would always be so and coded with Microsoft's deficient and/or non-standard quirks foremost, and hang the rest.
That turned out to be a mistake.
History repeats.
-A.
The list of browsers wasn't explicitly ordered, FWIW. This website lists in order of Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox, and Opera, contrary to yours. So it's kinda open ended.
But generally Chrome leads, Safari's next, and then the rest. Kinda like AWS, then Azure, and then the rest fight over third place. I've tweaked the sentence as people seem to be taking it as an ordered list.
C.
I wonder if 'Open Season' mode will work with ancient out of band firmwares from the likes of Dell and Cisco that always trip the TLS and Java warnings? Accessing things on a private network with the security turned down would be really useful for those machines where the firmware is no longer upgradable but are otherwise perfectly good machines.
I may be completely misunderstanding this.
But it sounds like this is a browser that's privacy-enabled by default, with an option to abandon all protection via explicit opt-in.
Which if accurate is a good thing, or if not warrants more detailed investigative reporting.
But if the most populous nation on the planet can be gradually weaned onto a native browser with Brave-like inbuilt protection - why is that not a good thing, and the headline?
How is a privacy-focused browser going to be reported in the statistics? We all know one of the tracking metrics is the browser being used. Privacy-focused browsers like to say they are something else. That would lump their metrics in with a non-privacy browser.
I use Brave on all my endpoints (and being a techie that is a lot of them). I checked out https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ and tested my browser. Brave is reported as Chrome.
That is great for my privacy. But it makes the statistics questionable. It is difficult to say how many privacy-focused browsers are in use when they all claim to be from the chocolate factory.
This is a very valid point Marty, and it’s one which will become more pertinent over time.
Google has been working on a new standard to force websites to explicitly request what information they actually need with the goal of dumping user agent header support entirely. The purpose of this is to minimise the amount of data which needs to be collected for functional/compatibility purposes with restrictions becoming stricter over time (e.g. only HTTPS sites can query this info). Once the transition has been completed, you can bet all Chromium-based browsers will report as Chrome, all WebKit-based ones will report as Safari and all Gecko-based ones will show up as being Firefox.
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