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    Yahoo Learns New Definition of 'Safe'

    Is Google Killing Firefox?

    Marissa Mayer Chrome-plates the Nasdaq

    Google Chrome market share tops Opera, latest Internet Explorer beta version

    Marc Andreessen blesses Google's browser

    Firefox use growing, Internet Explorer slipping

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    Image of macbeach macbeach
    08/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo Learns New Definition of 'Safe'
    New, improved, with "We are no longer lying to you" additives!
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    Image of Magister Magister
    08/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo Learns New Definition of 'Safe'
    I believe Yahoo! suggests browsers based upon which ever is newest and packaged with their content. There may be some kind of ad buy involved, but I've always assumed it was a way to propagate their toolbar, search, homepage, messenger and such.

    Back around Netscape 2 (or so), they promoted the idea of branding, distributing and repackaging NS browsers with value-added content. I've figured this was among the lessons learned by Yahoo!, when they were headquartered on the Netscape campus. After all, as someone points out in the TechCrunch thread, Yahoo! was promoting IE8 long before the search deal and if you follow through to TechCrunch's "update", I'll guess the German package just isn't ready.
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    Image of ifstone ifstone
    08/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo Learns New Definition of 'Safe'
    Anyone who thinks Firefox is by definition less full of holes than IE is living in a fool's paradise (AKA the Internet in 2009).
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo Learns New Definition of 'Safe'
    Well, for the sake of argument, it's almost certainly safer than previous versions of IE, so the claim can be true, if that's what they're referring to.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    08/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo Learns New Definition of 'Safe'
    When you strapped into that chair, and the dentist asks, "Is it safe?", what else can you do?
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    The Mozilla Foundation describes itself as "a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet".


    Meanwhile, Google wants to take over the world. NARF!

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    Image of Pamela Strangeways Pamela Strangeways
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    As has been mentioned in this thread, that silly "don't be evil" mantra may have been good for getting go-goody devs into the building (combined with the volleyball sand pit and free m&m's), but let's not confuse corporate rhetoric and corporate behavior.


    Google wants to be in charge and will do what it needs to do to make its products the most used and most profitable.

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    Image of Dagrolord Dagrolord
    03/31/09

    @Sessa Von Richthofen:


    Which brings up another sore spot with me- reading about the perquisites of the High Technocracy. Seems a well-known computer game design House has a break room with gratis commissary, classic pinball machines, and Dabo girl-quality fluffers wandering around making themselves useful.


    On the Finance side, we're reduced to gloating like spoiled children when management shows up to the morning meeting with complimentary Panera bagels and coffee. And there's talk of putting treadles under our desks to help our cardio and to offset the office energy bill.

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    Image of maevemealone maevemealone
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    As my home computer is something purchased on the overheard gossip of office geeks ("we didn't say actually buy the thing!") it is structured exactly as if I'd read the manual in greek. Therefore, Chrome is fast, it doesn't crash on me and it's doesn't make me relearn how to put navigation bars in every time they do an upgrade. Firefox is still needed for paying the bills but Chrome keeps me from losing my mind.
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    Image of Dagrolord Dagrolord
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    In related news, a party of fox-hunting billionaires which included Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin are being excoriated for 'deuced bad form'. Apparently, the 'Hounds of Google' ripped to shreds a small red fox in direct view of a stalled school bus full of horrified and improbably photogenic children.
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    Image of macbeach macbeach
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    I think this will be bad PR for them. I'd love to have a Linux version of Chrome, but it is also very valuable to have a browser out there that is both Open Source, and not affiliated with a company selling other things, whether those other things be ads or operating systems.


    Mozilla (Firefox) was doing OK before Google started providing so much money to it. They could probably readjust to getting funding from a multiplicity of sources.

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    Image of MattGaymon MattGaymon
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    When you read this through Google Reader, there's an ad to install Chrome at the bottom of the post.
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    Image of Grandma Death Grandma Death
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    Whatever. Call me when Chrome is actually available for Mac!
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    Image of macbeach macbeach
    03/31/09

    @Grandma Death: Or natively for Linux.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    03/31/09

    @Grandma Death: I'm with you, Grandma Death.


    Plus, I always wanted to say that.

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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    I use both. Can’t we all just get along?
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    Image of narnio narnio
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    "But a Google-eyed tipster tells us that Google is looking for ways to cut its support of Mozilla sharply."


    Everything in this post is anchored around this one line right here, and I have no idea what it means.

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    Image of Calraigh Calraigh
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    The meta-ness of reading about this on Firefox while I'm using Chrome for Google is kind of making my brain explode.
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    Image of macbeach macbeach
    03/31/09

    @Calraigh: Try doing with the WINE emulator for Linux.
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