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Whether you’re a business adjusting to the realities of remote work or just someone looking to up their privacy standards, the new-and-improved Mozilla VPN combined with Firefox ensures your browsing experience is one of the most private available today. \n\n\n\nBuilding you a digital fortress \n\n\n\nHackers are a creative bunch. Sometimes, they’re like pickpockets who target you with phishing emails and untrustworthy websites. Other times, they’re more like bank robbers who go directly to the bank’s safe and get everyone’s money in one swoop. Because browsers are some of the most widely used software in the world, they make interesting targets for hackers. At Firefox, we work around the clock to fight off those attacks. Some of the recent work we’ve rolled out includes site isolation that prevents an attack on one website to spill over into another one, essentially putting down partition walls between websites. 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"html": "\n<h2><strong>Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>While musing over my recently published article, <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/\">Why are hyperlinks blue</a>, I was left feeling a bit blue myself. Yes, it could have been the fact that I was evacuated and Hurricane Ida was destroying my home, I’ll admit. Besides that, I was also bothered by the fact that even though I was able to determine that Mosaic was indeed the first browser to use blue hyperlinks, I was not much closer to determining why the hyperlinks themselves were blue.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black hyperlinks had been the standard for many years, but why the sudden shift to blue? One can assume that it is because RGB phosphorescent monitors were becoming more readily available in comparison to monotone phosphorescent monitors that could only produce one color. Okay then, with a palette of colors to choose from, why blue? Why not green? Microsoft 3.1 had used green for hyperlinks. Surely there must have been something to support or inspire <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/\">Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina on April 12, 1993 to make the hyperlinks blue</a>, but what was it?</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I simply didn’t know, so I published the article anyway and hoped the internet would do as it always does: thrill in pointing out when someone is wrong, in the hope that someone would know the true answer.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I published the first article, a hurricane destroyed my home, and now two months later I’m once again sitting in my now gutted home with the miracle of the internet once again restored, and I’m back on the case.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Sifting for the golden nugget</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I found myself enjoying my morning coffee, reading through hate mail from my first article, as one does. I sifted through this dung heap as a prospector pans for gold, scanning for the faintest hint of gold to help me continue my journey to the true origin of the blue hyperlink.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hopkins\">Don Hopkins</a>, or a commenter who goes by the same name, knew the answer, and pointed me towards <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Shneiderman\">Ben Shneiderman</a>. In short, it is Prof. Ben Shneiderman whom we can thank for the modern blue hyperlink. At the time, however, I didn’t yet know this. I found the professor online, and contacted him, and went about my day. He so kindly reached out to me, and as he spoke, it was an epiphany – all of these disassociated pieces of applications, history and anecdotes suddenly fit together like a marvelous great puzzle.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is the timeline based on our conversation, the documentation Prof. Shneiderman provided to me, and the information I had already gathered in my previous research. I hope that this all together can help prove a direct link between the work Ben Shneiderman and his graduate students were doing at the University of Maryland in the mid to late 1980s and the blue hyperlink found in Mosaic in 1993.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>I’m a cyan fan</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1985 &#8211; University of Maryland: Human-Computer Interaction Lab</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Shneiderman developed the highlighted selectable light blue link, which was implemented by graduate student Dan Ostroff. In doing so, they, as well as other students, tested many versions in controlled experiments.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>“Red highlighting made the links more visible, but reduced the user&#8217;s capacity to read and retain the content of the text&#8230; blue was visible, on both white and black backgrounds and didn’t interfere with retention,” Shneiderman shared with me.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1982 &#8211; HyperTIES</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created in 1982, <a href=\"https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/\">HyperTIES</a> was an early hypertext authoring system, made commercial available by Cognetics Corporation. After research concluded at the University of Maryland, blue links were then built into HyperTIES. This is the first instance of a blue hyperlink.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>April 1986 &#8211; </strong><strong><em>Communications of the ACM</em></strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Koved and Shneiderman published their research in Communications of the ACM, an industry magazine.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/5684.5687\"><em>Koved, L., &amp; Shneiderman, B. (1986). Embedded menus: Selecting items in context. Communications of the ACM, 29(4), 312-318.</em></a></p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>November 13-15, 1987 – The Hypertext Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the first Hypertext conference, Ben Shniderman presented in a panel session, “<a href=\"https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/317426.317441\">User interface design for the Hyperties electronic encyclopedia</a>.” Of the conference, Professor Shniderman <a href=\"https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/hyperties/\">wrote</a>:</p>\n\n\n\n<p>“We conducted approximately 20 empirical studies of many design variables which &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; were reported at the Hypertext 1987 conference and in array of journals and books. Issues such as the use of light blue highlighting as the default color for links, the inclusion of a history stack, easy access to a BACK button, article length, and global string search were all studied empirically.”&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>July 1988 &#8211; Communications of the ACM</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Shneiderman’s team took on the project of producting a HyperTIES disk for the ACM called “<em>Hypertext on Hypertext</em>”, which contained the full text of eight papers. These papers were published in the <a href=\"https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/1988/7\">July 1988 issue of <em>Communications of the ACM</em></a><em>.</em></p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>The leap to Lee</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote <a href=\"https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html\"><em>Information Management: A Proposal</em></a>, in which he discussed many topics. Of interest to the blue hyperlink, he does discuss the work being done at universities centered around human interface design, and a nod to commercial success of a product using hypertext:&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>“</strong>An increasing amount of work is being done into hypermedia research at universities and commercial research labs, and some commercial systems have resulted. There have been two conferences, Hypertext &#8217;87 and &#8217;88, and in Washington DC, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NST) hosted a workshop on standardisation in hypertext, a followup of which will occur during 1990.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Communications of the ACM special issue on Hypertext contains many references to hypertext papers. A bibliography on hypertext is given in [NIST90], and a uucp newsgroup alt.hypertext exists. I do not, therefore, give a list here.<br><br>Much of the academic research is into the human interface side of browsing through a complex information space. Problems addressed are those of making navigation easy, and avoiding a feeling of being &#8220;lost in hyperspace&#8221;. Whilst the results of the research are interesting, many users at CERN will be accessing the system using primitive terminals, and so advanced window styles are not so important for us now.”</p>\n\n\n\n<p>While still an assumption, it is a fair assumption that Tim Berners-Lee was aware of the blue highlight hyperlink color because he was aware of “research at universities”, “Hypertext ‘87”, and the “ACM special issue on Hypertext,” all instances where the blue highlight color research was presented. Berners-Lee did mention that the “results of the research are interesting.” It is also interesting to note that WWW, the browser he was creating at the time, did not use blue hyperlinks.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>January 16-18, 1990 &#8211; Hypertext Standardization Workshop&nbsp;</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tim Berners-Lee, as well as many others, participated in the hypertext standardization workshop, yet there was no mention of the use of color to denote hypertext in the report. However, readability of hypertext was identified as a research objective in the workshop report (<a href=\"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication500-178.pdf\">PDF</a>).</p>\n\n\n\n<p>“​​Measuring hypertext &#8220;readability.&#8221; &#8230; Hypertext extensions to readability metrics might include measures of the &#8220;goodness&#8221; of links based on similarity between linked units. Readability measures for alternative hypertext designs for the same text will go far toward making hypertext design an engineering discipline.” (Page 35)</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>August 1990 &#8211; Dynamic Characteristics of Hypertext</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following up on the workshop, I assume this is the resulting paper (<a href=\"https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/IR/nistir4404.pdf\">PDF</a>) to come out of the hypertext standardization workshop. Published by Richard Furuta &amp; P. David Stotts, this paper argues that dynamic characteristics of hypertext are required to achieve hypertext’s true purpose. In the excerpt below we can see the authors discuss color’s role in hypertex, and the foundations of active, visited and focused states:</p>\n\n\n\n<p>“Dynamic representation of context may also be useful. For example, consider the representation of an anchor that changes over time. The anchor may be represented by a highlighted region whose color, size, or location changes over time to draw more attention to itself. Alternatively, the anchor might be represented by a small animation.” &#8211; Page 2</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Blue’s clues</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the late 1980s, industry workshops and conferences brought&nbsp;people together to share ideas, discuss trends and standardize ways of making the web work. What are the results of this sharing of knowledge? Well, hypertext starts to turn blue. At the time, hypertext was more than what we now know as hyperlinks, but also included user interface elements such as the close icon, navigating back and forth between sections, and printing. As we see above, there were arguments from industry leaders to make hypertext dynamic, so active states must be included as well.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>October 21, 1991 &#8211; Macintosh System 7</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Mac_OS_7.6.1_emulated_inside_of_SheepShaver.png\" alt=\"\"/></figure></div>\n\n\n\n<p>Apple began adding hints of blue to icons and text background when selected.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h6>April 6, 1992 – Windows 3.1</h6>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https://ffp4g1ylyit3jdyti1hqcvtb-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2021/08/windows-3.1-1024x467.png\" alt=\"\"/></figure></div>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft began using blue for interactions to “highlight” text when selected.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1992 &#8211; HyperTIES</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Created for the HP LaserJet4 User Manual, even using HyperTies creators began using the darker blue hyperlink on a button as well as the light blue (cyan) for hyperlinks.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>December 1992 &#8211; Framaker 3.0 (Windows Version)</strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Framemaker was created for making and maintaining large documents, and is also the first instance I uncovered of the dark blue hyperlink. In 1992, not all versions were in color, but Framemaker v3.0 for Windows did support color monitors. Huge shoutout to <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Connolly_(computer_scientist)\">Dan Connolly</a> for letting me know about this application, and to a colleague of mine for opening it in an emulator to get this screenshot.</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/sdSGLeEFQHOcYAtRrruyAOJJCgMwYoNyX_Go9Z14ZaceqV2gLUoq57ZN8yvgDbfNrjQleAggzseyEGXM-LS_HJeBOEFk_9WkGnSdg7WvsgQBDha5suxXbTS-MBAF5zjrja5HwAFU\" alt=\"\"/></figure></div>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>On Wednesdays we wear blue</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So what inspired the blue links in Mosaic; whose blue hyperlinks went on to set the industry standard we are following even today? Well, we do know that <a href=\"https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#browser\">Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina were inspired by ViolaWWW</a> and decided to create Mosaic after seeing it. Perhaps they were aware of the same inspirations and research as Tim Berners-Lee, or they simply saw the blue trend happening in their industry.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In truth, it doesn’t matter what specific application or article inspired them. The decision to make hyperlinks blue in Mosaic, and the reason why we see it happening in Cello at the same time, is that by 1993, blue was becoming the industry standard for interaction for hypertext. It had been eight years since the initial research on blue as a hyperlink color. This data had been shared, presented at conferences, and printed in industry magazines. Hypertext went on to be discussed in multiple forums. Diverse teams&#8217; research came to the same conclusion – color mattered. If it didn’t inspire Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina directly, it inspired those around them and those in their industry. We can see evidence of this inspiration by looking at the work of Macintosh, Microsoft, HyperTIES, LaserJet, Framemaker and Cello. These companies and products created work before or during Mosaic, and all use blue hyperlinks, selection colors or blue typography. Though this was still a time of experimentation, the visual language of blue for interaction was beginning to be defined years before Mosaic was created.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love knowing that the original blue was chosen with care and through testing, that this research and knowledge was shared through a community, and that the spirit of open source sharing still lives on here at Mozilla. I am very thankful to the developer community for their comments which led me to the right people so that I could find the answer to this question which has long plagued my mind and the minds of countless others. I hope that we continue to choose to use the internet as a place for good and communication, and that we use blue hyperlinks to connect with and help one another.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2>After Publication</h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Updated January 12, 2022</em></p>\n\n\n\n<p>After publishing the article, Ben Shneiderman and I continued to connect, in which he informed me that Lee and himself were colleagues who connected several times.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shneiderman informed me that Lee had cited his work from the ACM for the Macintosh or PC, and that Lee had used the idea of light blue links from Shneiderman&#8217;s work. From this we can infer that the blue hyperlink was indeed inspired by the research done at the University of Maryland.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, from the comments on my first article, <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/deep-dives/why-are-hyperlinks-blue/\">Why Hyperlinks are Blue</a>, the user <a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28318055\">SeanLuke found bug fixes </a>for WorldWildWeb on the NeXT that hinted at color support as early as 1991.</p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"ft-c-inline-cta\" href=\" https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/\">\n <div class=\"ft-c-inline-cta__media\">\n <img width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2020/09/Fx-Browser-icon-fullColor-512-512x512.png\" class=\"attachment-1x1 size-1x1\" alt=\"Firefox browser logo\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2020/09/Fx-Browser-icon-fullColor-512.png 512w, https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2020/09/Fx-Browser-icon-fullColor-512-300x300.png 300w, https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2020/09/Fx-Browser-icon-fullColor-512-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" /> </div>\n <div class=\"ft-c-inline-cta__content\">\n <h3>Get Firefox</h3> <span>Get the browser that protects what&#8217;s important</span> </div>\n</a>\n",
"text": "Why we need to revisit the origin of blue hyperlink\n\n\n\nWhile musing over my recently published article, Why are hyperlinks blue, I was left feeling a bit blue myself. Yes, it could have been the fact that I was evacuated and Hurricane Ida was destroying my home, I’ll admit. Besides that, I was also bothered by the fact that even though I was able to determine that Mosaic was indeed the first browser to use blue hyperlinks, I was not much closer to determining why the hyperlinks themselves were blue. \n\n\n\nBlack hyperlinks had been the standard for many years, but why the sudden shift to blue? One can assume that it is because RGB phosphorescent monitors were becoming more readily available in comparison to monotone phosphorescent monitors that could only produce one color. Okay then, with a palette of colors to choose from, why blue? Why not green? Microsoft 3.1 had used green for hyperlinks. Surely there must have been something to support or inspire Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina on April 12, 1993 to make the hyperlinks blue, but what was it?\n\n\n\nI simply didn’t know, so I published the article anyway and hoped the internet would do as it always does: thrill in pointing out when someone is wrong, in the hope that someone would know the true answer. \n\n\n\nI published the first article, a hurricane destroyed my home, and now two months later I’m once again sitting in my now gutted home with the miracle of the internet once again restored, and I’m back on the case.\n\n\n\nSifting for the golden nugget\n\n\n\nI found myself enjoying my morning coffee, reading through hate mail from my first article, as one does. I sifted through this dung heap as a prospector pans for gold, scanning for the faintest hint of gold to help me continue my journey to the true origin of the blue hyperlink.\n\n\n\nDon Hopkins, or a commenter who goes by the same name, knew the answer, and pointed me towards Ben Shneiderman. In short, it is Prof. Ben Shneiderman whom we can thank for the modern blue hyperlink. At the time, however, I didn’t yet know this. I found the professor online, and contacted him, and went about my day. He so kindly reached out to me, and as he spoke, it was an epiphany – all of these disassociated pieces of applications, history and anecdotes suddenly fit together like a marvelous great puzzle. \n\n\n\nBelow is the timeline based on our conversation, the documentation Prof. Shneiderman provided to me, and the information I had already gathered in my previous research. I hope that this all together can help prove a direct link between the work Ben Shneiderman and his graduate students were doing at the University of Maryland in the mid to late 1980s and the blue hyperlink found in Mosaic in 1993.\n\n\n\nI’m a cyan fan\n\n\n\n1985 – University of Maryland: Human-Computer Interaction Lab\n\n\n\nBen Shneiderman developed the highlighted selectable light blue link, which was implemented by graduate student Dan Ostroff. In doing so, they, as well as other students, tested many versions in controlled experiments. \n\n\n\n“Red highlighting made the links more visible, but reduced the user’s capacity to read and retain the content of the text… blue was visible, on both white and black backgrounds and didn’t interfere with retention,” Shneiderman shared with me.\n\n\n\n1982 – HyperTIES\n\n\n\nCreated in 1982, HyperTIES was an early hypertext authoring system, made commercial available by Cognetics Corporation. After research concluded at the University of Maryland, blue links were then built into HyperTIES. This is the first instance of a blue hyperlink. \n\n\n\nApril 1986 – Communications of the ACM\n\n\n\nKoved and Shneiderman published their research in Communications of the ACM, an industry magazine. \n\n\n\nKoved, L., & Shneiderman, B. (1986). Embedded menus: Selecting items in context. Communications of the ACM, 29(4), 312-318.\n\n\n\nNovember 13-15, 1987 – The Hypertext Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina\n\n\n\nAt the first Hypertext conference, Ben Shniderman presented in a panel session, “User interface design for the Hyperties electronic encyclopedia.” Of the conference, Professor Shniderman wrote:\n\n\n\n“We conducted approximately 20 empirical studies of many design variables which         were reported at the Hypertext 1987 conference and in array of journals and books. Issues such as the use of light blue highlighting as the default color for links, the inclusion of a history stack, easy access to a BACK button, article length, and global string search were all studied empirically.” \n\n\n\nJuly 1988 – Communications of the ACM\n\n\n\nBen Shneiderman’s team took on the project of producting a HyperTIES disk for the ACM called “Hypertext on Hypertext”, which contained the full text of eight papers. These papers were published in the July 1988 issue of Communications of the ACM.\n\n\n\nThe leap to Lee\n\n\n\nIn 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote Information Management: A Proposal, in which he discussed many topics. Of interest to the blue hyperlink, he does discuss the work being done at universities centered around human interface design, and a nod to commercial success of a product using hypertext: \n\n\n\n“An increasing amount of work is being done into hypermedia research at universities and commercial research labs, and some commercial systems have resulted. There have been two conferences, Hypertext ’87 and ’88, and in Washington DC, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NST) hosted a workshop on standardisation in hypertext, a followup of which will occur during 1990.\n\n\n\nThe Communications of the ACM special issue on Hypertext contains many references to hypertext papers. A bibliography on hypertext is given in [NIST90], and a uucp newsgroup alt.hypertext exists. I do not, therefore, give a list here.Much of the academic research is into the human interface side of browsing through a complex information space. Problems addressed are those of making navigation easy, and avoiding a feeling of being “lost in hyperspace”. Whilst the results of the research are interesting, many users at CERN will be accessing the system using primitive terminals, and so advanced window styles are not so important for us now.”\n\n\n\nWhile still an assumption, it is a fair assumption that Tim Berners-Lee was aware of the blue highlight hyperlink color because he was aware of “research at universities”, “Hypertext ‘87”, and the “ACM special issue on Hypertext,” all instances where the blue highlight color research was presented. Berners-Lee did mention that the “results of the research are interesting.” It is also interesting to note that WWW, the browser he was creating at the time, did not use blue hyperlinks. \n\n\n\nJanuary 16-18, 1990 – Hypertext Standardization Workshop \n\n\n\nTim Berners-Lee, as well as many others, participated in the hypertext standardization workshop, yet there was no mention of the use of color to denote hypertext in the report. However, readability of hypertext was identified as a research objective in the workshop report (PDF).\n\n\n\n“​​Measuring hypertext “readability.” … Hypertext extensions to readability metrics might include measures of the “goodness” of links based on similarity between linked units. Readability measures for alternative hypertext designs for the same text will go far toward making hypertext design an engineering discipline.” (Page 35)\n\n\n\nAugust 1990 – Dynamic Characteristics of Hypertext\n\n\n\nFollowing up on the workshop, I assume this is the resulting paper (PDF) to come out of the hypertext standardization workshop. Published by Richard Furuta & P. David Stotts, this paper argues that dynamic characteristics of hypertext are required to achieve hypertext’s true purpose. In the excerpt below we can see the authors discuss color’s role in hypertex, and the foundations of active, visited and focused states:\n\n\n\n“Dynamic representation of context may also be useful. For example, consider the representation of an anchor that changes over time. The anchor may be represented by a highlighted region whose color, size, or location changes over time to draw more attention to itself. Alternatively, the anchor might be represented by a small animation.” – Page 2\n\n\n\nBlue’s clues\n\n\n\nIn the late 1980s, industry workshops and conferences brought people together to share ideas, discuss trends and standardize ways of making the web work. What are the results of this sharing of knowledge? Well, hypertext starts to turn blue. At the time, hypertext was more than what we now know as hyperlinks, but also included user interface elements such as the close icon, navigating back and forth between sections, and printing. As we see above, there were arguments from industry leaders to make hypertext dynamic, so active states must be included as well. \n\n\n\nOctober 21, 1991 – Macintosh System 7\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nApple began adding hints of blue to icons and text background when selected. \n\n\n\nApril 6, 1992 – Windows 3.1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMicrosoft began using blue for interactions to “highlight” text when selected.\n\n\n\n1992 – HyperTIES\n\n\n\nCreated for the HP LaserJet4 User Manual, even using HyperTies creators began using the darker blue hyperlink on a button as well as the light blue (cyan) for hyperlinks.\n\n\n\nDecember 1992 – Framaker 3.0 (Windows Version)\n\n\n\nFramemaker was created for making and maintaining large documents, and is also the first instance I uncovered of the dark blue hyperlink. In 1992, not all versions were in color, but Framemaker v3.0 for Windows did support color monitors. Huge shoutout to Dan Connolly for letting me know about this application, and to a colleague of mine for opening it in an emulator to get this screenshot.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOn Wednesdays we wear blue\n\n\n\nSo what inspired the blue links in Mosaic; whose blue hyperlinks went on to set the industry standard we are following even today? Well, we do know that Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina were inspired by ViolaWWW and decided to create Mosaic after seeing it. Perhaps they were aware of the same inspirations and research as Tim Berners-Lee, or they simply saw the blue trend happening in their industry.\n\n\n\nIn truth, it doesn’t matter what specific application or article inspired them. The decision to make hyperlinks blue in Mosaic, and the reason why we see it happening in Cello at the same time, is that by 1993, blue was becoming the industry standard for interaction for hypertext. It had been eight years since the initial research on blue as a hyperlink color. This data had been shared, presented at conferences, and printed in industry magazines. Hypertext went on to be discussed in multiple forums. Diverse teams’ research came to the same conclusion – color mattered. If it didn’t inspire Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina directly, it inspired those around them and those in their industry. We can see evidence of this inspiration by looking at the work of Macintosh, Microsoft, HyperTIES, LaserJet, Framemaker and Cello. These companies and products created work before or during Mosaic, and all use blue hyperlinks, selection colors or blue typography. Though this was still a time of experimentation, the visual language of blue for interaction was beginning to be defined years before Mosaic was created. \n\n\n\nI love knowing that the original blue was chosen with care and through testing, that this research and knowledge was shared through a community, and that the spirit of open source sharing still lives on here at Mozilla. I am very thankful to the developer community for their comments which led me to the right people so that I could find the answer to this question which has long plagued my mind and the minds of countless others. I hope that we continue to choose to use the internet as a place for good and communication, and that we use blue hyperlinks to connect with and help one another. \n\n\n\nAfter Publication\n\n\n\nUpdated January 12, 2022\n\n\n\nAfter publishing the article, Ben Shneiderman and I continued to connect, in which he informed me that Lee and himself were colleagues who connected several times.\n\n\n\nShneiderman informed me that Lee had cited his work from the ACM for the Macintosh or PC, and that Lee had used the idea of light blue links from Shneiderman’s work. 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Use this opportunity to go through your bookmarks and delete pages you no longer need and consider using Firefox’s <a href=\"https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/categorizing-bookmarks-make-them-easy-to-find\"><strong>tagging feature</strong></a>, which allows you to categorize bookmarks with keywords to make them easily searchable. And while extensions like adblockers and translators can be enormously useful, a quick review of these tools to ensure everything is up-to-date and still helpful will go a long way in keeping your browser moving fast and uncluttered.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Unsubscribe from junk mail</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">It&#8217;s easy for junk mail to pile up throughout the year — especially as more and more sites require us to share our contact details to gain access. 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Spam comes in many different forms, so if it’s <strong>telemarketers&#8217; calls</strong> that are ringing your phone off the hook, try removing your information from major data brokers&#8217; databases — such as <a href=\"https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List\">this one</a> — to reduce the likelihood of your number ending up in spammers’ hands.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>For emails you do actually want to read</strong>, but just can’t keep up with — like content-dense newsletters or Substacks — consider using <a href=\"https://getpocket.com/en/\">Pocket</a> to save your must-read articles for later while giving your inbox a break.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Get serious about privacy</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">The longer you’ve lived online, the bigger your digital footprint, and with that comes greater privacy concerns. Ever been served an ad that was eerily similar to something you just searched? It was likely from a company that tracks your every move online. While the world of cookies can be confusing, and sometimes it feels easier to opt-in than figure out how to opt-out, consider incorporating a few new habits into your browsing routine to protect your data in 2022.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>To increase your privacy, you can: </strong></p>\n\n\n\n<p>Use alternatives to big tech platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon, which are known to store large amounts of user data. Instead of using Google Chrome as your browser, try a more privacy-focused option like Firefox.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/clear-cookies-and-site-data-firefox\">Clear your cookies</a>, which erases all information saved in your browser and makes it harder for sites from tracking you long after you’ve visited them.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consider exploring a <a href=\"https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/vpn/\">Virtual Private Network</a> (VPN). VPNs, such as Mozilla VPN, hide your IP address, protecting your identity and location. They also encrypt the traffic between you and your VPN provider for an additional layer of privacy.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Limit how much social platforms can track your activity by unlinking your social profiles from accounts on other sites, and adding extensions like <a href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/facebook-container/?utm_source=blog.mozilla.org&amp;utm_campaign=firefox_frontier&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=fbcontainer\">Facebook Container</a> to your browser, which prevent platforms from tracking you across the web. <br><br><strong>PRO TIP:</strong> Sick of having to always click, &#8220;Accept cookies&#8221;? Try choosing a browser that has strong privacy protections like <a href=\"https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop\">Enhanced Tracking Protection</a> and <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/\">Total Cookie Protection</a> in Firefox.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Update and strengthen your passwords</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">This one is so important, it deserved its own heading. Much of what we can do to protect ourselves online boils down to our passwords, which hold the key to our personal information online. While good password practices do require some discipline, it’s worth the inconvenience to keep your online life infinitely safer. 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If you don’t have that option, avoid answering them accurately and instead opt for answers that are long and random, just like your passwords.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><strong>PRO TIP:</strong> Not sure what a good password is? Many browsers, including Firefox, have integrated <a href=\"https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/password-manager-remember-delete-edit-logins\">Password Managers</a> that can generate strong password options, as well as store usernames and passwords and automatically fill them in when you visit sites.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Protect your health and new devices&nbsp;</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">As we spend more time on our devices, especially during the pandemic and work-from-home, it can be easy to forget the toll that too much screen time takes on our physical health.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">In 2022,<strong> fight eye strain</strong> by switching your phones and computers to <strong>dark or yellow mode</strong>, which both cut screen glare to reduce visual fatigue. The blue light emitted from screens can wreak havoc on your sleep cycle, as it’s been found to suppress the body&#8217;s release of melatonin. Combat this by investing in a pair of <strong>blue light glasses</strong>, or installing a blue light extension on your browser.</p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https://www.mcleanhospital.org/essential/it-or-not-social-medias-affecting-your-mental-health\">More</a> and <a href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2786464?utm_source=For_The_Media&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=ftm_links&amp;utm_term=112321\">more</a> <a href=\"https://lancastergeneralhealth.org/health-hub-home/2021/september/the-effects-of-social-media-on-mental-health\">research</a> has also found that too much time on social media can negatively impact your <strong>mental health</strong>. As you reset for the New Year, consider using tools to limit your time on these sites, such as <a href=\"https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/impulse-blocker/\">Impulse Blocker</a>, an extension that allows you to limit access to distracting sites.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>2022, here we come!</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">As the internet expands and becomes more ingrained in our lives, it&#8217;s crucial we take this moment to assess our digital habits and ensure we are protected online in the year to come. However, it’s important we remember why we do this — not just to defend ourselves from potential online threats to our privacy and security, but so that we can keep enjoying all the infinite goodies the web has to offer. The internet is an amazing place with so much to explore in 2022, so let’s make sure we are prepared to make the most of it!</p>\n",
"text": "Lindsey Shepard, CMO, Mozilla\n\n\n\nFor most, the New Year marks a time to reflect, reset and re-prioritize. While learning a new language, creating a budget or starting up a new hobby have become staples of our New Years’ Resolutions, as our lives increasingly shift online, it’s important we also use this opportunity to reassess our digital habits. Whether you received a new device this holiday season or just want to make sure you’re protecting yourself online, there’s no better time to partake in some New Year's cyber cleaning. \n\nTo get 2022 off to a strong start, here's a helpful and easy checklist to help you tidy up your browsing, tighten your security and ensure your online health isn’t left at the wayside.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTidy your browser \n\n\n\nWith most of us browsing the web daily, it’s inevitable that our searches begin to add up and clutter our browsing experience. To start the New Year off right, give your browser a deep clean to ensure it’s running smoothly for the months ahead so you have an organized space to access, consume and save all of the web’s great content. \n\n\n\nStart off by clearing your browser history, which will not only help your devices run faster but will prevent websites from tracking your information (more on that later). Consider also enabling Private Browsing, which temporarily halts data from being stored, or changing your browser to automatically delete your history when you quit the application. \n\n\n\nIt’s also a good idea to take a look at your bookmarks and extensions. Use this opportunity to go through your bookmarks and delete pages you no longer need and consider using Firefox’s tagging feature, which allows you to categorize bookmarks with keywords to make them easily searchable. And while extensions like adblockers and translators can be enormously useful, a quick review of these tools to ensure everything is up-to-date and still helpful will go a long way in keeping your browser moving fast and uncluttered. \n\n\n\nUnsubscribe from junk mail\n\n\n\nIt’s easy for junk mail to pile up throughout the year — especially as more and more sites require us to share our contact details to gain access. Just as you’ve resolved to clean out your closet every January, use this opportunity to actually scrub your inbox so it is organized and manageable in the year to come. \n\n\n\nMany of us fall prey to handing over our personal information to e-commerce sites in return for discounts, but in the process, open our inbox to a flood of unsolicited emails. To keep scoring these deals while maintaining a clean inbox, use Firefox Relay, which provides email aliases to use in these situations while protecting your real address. \n\n\n\nWhile it may seem like a herculean task to unsubscribe from each individual sender, there are tools that can automate the process for you, like Clean Email, which provides a list of all your subscription emails and allows you to unsubscribe easily. Spam comes in many different forms, so if it’s telemarketers’ calls that are ringing your phone off the hook, try removing your information from major data brokers’ databases — such as this one — to reduce the likelihood of your number ending up in spammers’ hands.\n\n\n\nFor emails you do actually want to read, but just can’t keep up with — like content-dense newsletters or Substacks — consider using Pocket to save your must-read articles for later while giving your inbox a break. \n\n\n\nGet serious about privacy\n\n\n\nThe longer you’ve lived online, the bigger your digital footprint, and with that comes greater privacy concerns. Ever been served an ad that was eerily similar to something you just searched? It was likely from a company that tracks your every move online. While the world of cookies can be confusing, and sometimes it feels easier to opt-in than figure out how to opt-out, consider incorporating a few new habits into your browsing routine to protect your data in 2022. \n\n\n\nTo increase your privacy, you can: \n\n\n\nUse alternatives to big tech platforms like Google, Facebook and Amazon, which are known to store large amounts of user data. Instead of using Google Chrome as your browser, try a more privacy-focused option like Firefox. \n\n\n\nClear your cookies, which erases all information saved in your browser and makes it harder for sites from tracking you long after you’ve visited them. \n\n\n\nConsider exploring a Virtual Private Network (VPN). VPNs, such as Mozilla VPN, hide your IP address, protecting your identity and location. 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Many browsers, including Firefox, have integrated Password Managers that can generate strong password options, as well as store usernames and passwords and automatically fill them in when you visit sites. \n\n\n\nProtect your health and new devices \n\n\n\nAs we spend more time on our devices, especially during the pandemic and work-from-home, it can be easy to forget the toll that too much screen time takes on our physical health. \n\n\n\nIn 2022, fight eye strain by switching your phones and computers to dark or yellow mode, which both cut screen glare to reduce visual fatigue. The blue light emitted from screens can wreak havoc on your sleep cycle, as it’s been found to suppress the body’s release of melatonin. Combat this by investing in a pair of blue light glasses, or installing a blue light extension on your browser.\n\n\n\nMore and more research has also found that too much time on social media can negatively impact your mental health. 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"html": "\n<p>Browser maker Mozilla today announced a partnership with <a href=\"https://themarkup.org/\">The Markup</a>, the non-profit newsroom that investigates how technology is reshaping society, on a research project to provide insights into and data about a space that’s opaque to policymakers, researchers and users themselves. By joining <a href=\"https://rally.mozilla.org/current-studies/facebook-pixel-hunt/index.html\">Mozilla and The Markup’s “Facebook Pixel Hunt”</a> in Firefox, people can help <a href=\"https://rally.mozilla.org/\">Rally</a> and The Markup unravel how Facebook’s tracking infrastructure massively collects data about people online – data that is used to target ads, tailor content recommendations and spread misinformation – all by simply browsing the web.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https://themarkup.org/\">The Markup</a> is the newest partner for <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/take-control-over-your-data-with-rally-a-novel-privacy-first-data-sharing-platform/\">Rally, the privacy-first data-sharing platform</a><a href=\"https://rally.mozilla.org/\"> </a>that was <a href=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/data/2021/05/05/announcing-mozilla-rally/\">created by Mozilla in 2021</a> to take back control from platforms that are not transparent about how they use people’s data and make it very difficult for independent outside research to take place. 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Cited by legislators to combat <a href=\"https://themarkup.org/locked-out/2021/12/17/the-markups-work-cited-in-effort-to-outlaw-discriminatory-algorithms\">discriminatory tenant screening</a> and mortgage lending, The Markup’s journalism has distinguished itself with its direct impact on people’s lives. The partnership of the two organizations brings together Rally’s technical skill and The Markup’s data-driven investigative journalism, exposing the problems of informational asymmetry on the internet and shedding light on systems of online surveillance used by companies like Facebook.</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>“A tool like Rally can bring the full force of communities of people joining together to provide insights into one of the most opaque parts of the internet that have such a dramatic impact on our individual lives and on society. This is a rare opportunity to lift the veil over Facebook’s tracking and data collection practices outside of the Facebook platforms.”</p><cite>Ted Han, Rally Product Lead at Mozilla</cite></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook has repeatedly slowed down efforts to bring transparency and to help independent third parties research and understand the mechanisms at play on its platforms: it <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/technology/facebook-data.html\">shut down CrowdTangle</a>, <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-blocks-ad-transparency-tools\">blocked ProPublica’s Ad Transparency tools</a>, <a href=\"https://themarkup.org/citizen-browser/2021/09/21/facebook-rolls-out-news-feed-change-that-blocks-watchdogs-from-gathering-data\">modified code to prevent The Markup’s Citizen Browser</a> from collecting user-volunteered data and canceled <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/10/opinion/facebook-misinformation.html\">NYU’s AdObserver researchers’ accounts</a>.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>“The Internet and the world cannot wait on platforms to do the right thing, especially when so much depends on it. This partnership seeks to lead the way in providing new and critical ways of illuminating the reality of the internet, led by the people who make it. This partnership comes at a time when the consequences of fragmented awareness have never been more stark.”</p><cite> Ted Han, Rally Product Lead at Mozilla </cite></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default\"><p>“We’re thrilled to partner with Mozilla, which shares our commitment to a more transparent and trusted internet. Rally is an open invitation for the public to contribute to important research into some of today’s most pressing issues, and we’re excited to investigate wherever it leads.”</p><cite>Julia Angwin, editor-in-chief and founder of The Markup </cite></blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Markup will be Rally’s first non-academic partner. Rally launched as a Firefox extension in 2021. It has supported a study in collaboration with <a href=\"https://rally.mozilla.org/current-studies/political-and-covid-19-news/index.html\">Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy</a> about news and misinformation about politics and COVID-19 across online services, and another ongoing study with <a href=\"https://rally.mozilla.org/current-studies/beyond-the-paywall/index.html\">the Stanford University Graduate School of Business</a> on news consumption and the impact of ads.</p>\n\n\n\n<a class=\"ft-c-inline-cta\" href=\" https://rally.mozilla.org/\">\n <div class=\"ft-c-inline-cta__media\">\n <img width=\"636\" height=\"636\" src=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2022/01/Mozilla-Rally-logo-for-CTA-636x636.png\" class=\"attachment-1x1 size-1x1\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2022/01/Mozilla-Rally-logo-for-CTA.png 636w, https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2022/01/Mozilla-Rally-logo-for-CTA-300x300.png 300w, https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/278/files/2022/01/Mozilla-Rally-logo-for-CTA-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" /> </div>\n <div class=\"ft-c-inline-cta__content\">\n <h3>Participate in &#8220;The Facebook Pixel Hunt&#8221; </h3> <span>Install Rally</span> </div>\n</a>\n",
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While Mozilla can’t make your impossible-to-shop-for dad any easier to shop for or fix the <a href=\"https://getpocket.com/collections/essential-reading-why-the-supply-chain-is-tangled-up-in-knots\">supply chain issues</a>, we can help make the process of holiday shopping more enjoyable.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hey, with your holiday shopping a bit easier, maybe you will have some extra time to gift yourself exactly what you want this holiday season.</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>1. Jumping back into holiday shopping with Firefox mobile</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Just because we all of a sudden have to purchase gifts for what feels like everyone we’ve ever known, that doesn’t mean that we suddenly have more time in our day. So here we are, searching the internet for gifts while inline for our morning coffee, during those 5-minute breaks between meetings, or right before we fall asleep at night. <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/2uo1qc?campaign=firefox-mobile&amp;adgroup=blog&amp;creative=firefox-drumbeat&amp;fallback=http%3A%2F%2Fmozilla.org%2Ffirefox%2Fmobile%2F\">Firefox</a> understands that, and our app homepage lets you jump back to open tabs as well as sites you’ve pinned and bookmarked.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<p>With holiday shopping you may want to pin things like:</p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The page comparing features of the latest phones you want to buy your family.</li><li>The <a href=\"https://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-christmas-gift-ideas.html\">complete Strategist holiday gift guide</a> you feel will solve your gift-giving woes.&nbsp;</li><li>The webpage your significant other not so subtly sent your way.&nbsp;</li></ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to pin a site: </strong>Tap the Settings menu (the three dots in the URL bar), then tap <strong>Add to top sites</strong> (Android) or <strong>Add to Shortcuts </strong>(iOS). 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This allows you to make sure that the gift you are thinking about is not risking the privacy of your loved ones.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or if you don’t know what tech gift is right yet, check out the <a href=\"https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/best-of/\">Best Of category</a> with the 22 products you can feel good about gifting.&nbsp;</p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>3. Organizing all of your gift ideas in Pocket</strong></h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are choosing between multiple gifts, or are not sure that you’ve found exactly the right gift for your partner yet, you can keep all of your ideas organized in your <a href=\"https://app.adjust.com/m54twk?campaign=organic-search&amp;adgroup=blog&amp;creative=pocket-collections&amp;fallback=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.getpocket.com%2F\">Pocket app</a>. Anytime you come across a gift you think your partner may like, save it to Pocket, and add a tag to that link. You customize the tag with the name of your recipient or “gift ideas”. Whatever keeps you organized and going!</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pro Tip:</strong> Save things you think your family and friends will like all year long and reduce the need for frantic searches just a couple of weeks before. Just search for the right tag in your Pocket app and all of your ideas will be in one place.</p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to add a Pocket tag from Firefox: </strong>Hit the &#8220;Save to Pocket&#8221; button in the top right corner of Firefox, then tag your page and Save it. Later, when you open your Pocket app, your Saves will be there, tagged and organized.</p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/TNUDt0KZX-jg6kerfYA5RRQbkVTHx9dbBQS0pv5edzSLm-T8mnbVMZpbttONYyyItBS1YAoxK-ItKAkhOQTsil43nR9s9_-TyYGMIQTwqHGwFmWY4j74wQhL3u60EET9XK_1gezQ\" alt=\"\"/></figure></div>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>4. 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In the fall, we rolled out a Web-only beta launch of a fundamentally new experience within Pocket &#8212; a new “Home.” Currently available to users who log in to Pocket, Home is where you can find stories or sources that our content discovery team believes will be relevant to you. Plus, the more stories you save and the more you engage with Pocket, the better these recommendations will become. Unlike other recommendation sources, we always apply a human editorial layer to keep people from going down rabbit holes and ensuring high quality. 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Here’s more on that:\n\n\n\nGetting Pocket on Android organized for your high-quality reads\n\n\n\nIn the physical world, the act of organization is to help us strategically place things so we can easily get to them. In the kitchen, for example, we have the pots and pans close to the oven and the dishwasher right next to the sink. This year, we focused on creating features that help uncover the high-quality content you’ve already saved to your list in order to ultimately save you time, with new time-to-read filters and sorting options on our Android app. This month we’re releasing two new features that you can also find in our Android app: Viewed and Unviewed and Next and Previous. Here’s how these two new features will save you time: \n\n\n\nGet you faster to content with Viewed/Unviewed articles: Now, you no longer need to guess which articles you’ve read once you’ve saved them. From My List, all unviewed articles will be in bold. Once you’ve viewed the article, it will no longer be bold. We’ve also added three buttons — share, archive, and additional actions (represented as three vertical dots) — so that after you’ve finished reading your article you can send it to a friend, save it in your favorites, categorize it by tag or simply delete it. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMoving forward with your Next article: From My List, once you’ve opened up an article, you’ll find the Next and Previous arrows at the bottom of your screen or when you scroll up. Tap the arrows to move you forward or backward within your list. These buttons help save you that unnecessary step of going back to My List. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscover new voices and stories with our Pocket Collections\n\n\n\nOver the past year, Pocket editors have partnered with subject-matter experts to curate hundreds of Pocket Collections, which allow users to explore and go deeper on topics that interest them in ways that algorithmic recommendations or results often don’t allow. Collections put the best of the web at users’ fingertips, on a wide variety of topics (How to start meditating. How to write (almost) anything. Managing Zoom brain. What’s worth reading about the climate report) by taking the guesswork out of trying to figure out and find what’s worth your time and attention. \n\n\n\nYou can now easily find all of our Collections on a dedicated tab and page, with new ones being published each week. 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run();
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