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say hello to ads in your browser tabs I am Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update Firefox is putting advertisements on its new tab pages the browser maker Mozilla announced that when users open up a new tab the directory tiles will show sponsored web sites along with popular sites based on your location currently when you open up a new tab the slots are filled with recently visited sites and bookmarks Mozilla did not say when it would start putting ads on these Firefox tabs it's still in development but when it's ready the change will first show up on the desktop version of Firefox and eventually you'll see it on mobile twitter could be testing ways to become more like Facebook a few folks are noticing changes to their layout of their Twitter profile which has gone from this to this and that screenshot comes from a Mashable editor who spotted the change on his page but it's not viewable for most of us just yet as you can see this looks a whole lot like Facebook there's the photo and bio on the left with a long header photo stretching across the page and tweets are huge and in different columns which kind of look like how posts are displayed on Google+ this is just something Twitter's testing but it could be a way to get more people interested in trying the network you see twitter has a problem with growing its members and frankly the user experience isn't easy to understand when you're new to Twitter Toyota is recalling 1.9 million Prius cars globally because of a problem with the software that handles the hybrid controls the defective software could cause a car to power down while it's being driven but no accidents have been reported due to this glitchy system the recall includes Prius cars made since march of 2009 owners can fix this with a software update and folks I know some of you are upset that you missed out on downloading flappy bird before it was deleted from the App Store's but don't go searching for flappy bird on third-party Android app stores because if you find something that's claiming to be the game it's likely malware security firms are finding several applications in non google app marketplaces that claim to be flappy bird but they have code that is sending text messages to premium numbers that cost money seriously the game isn't worth seeking out it's only popular because there's been a hype about how hard it is and the creator deleted it this week because he didn't like how people were addicted to it that's your tech news update we could buy more details at cnet com / update and you can also stay updated by following along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey