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    Is Google Killing Firefox?

    Mozilla's Mitchell Baker investigated over looks, not finances

    Apple wanted Opera to be the iPhone browser

    Firefox developer loses three months of browser-bug data

    Firefox, Chrome already fighting over who's faster

    What took Google so long to build a browser?

    Firefox use growing, Internet Explorer slipping

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    Why does Firefox use Google for search? Follow the money

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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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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    I thought "don't be evil" had been replaced by "Surprise! We're a corporation! This is what we do" as the company motto.
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    Image of ifstone ifstone
    03/31/09

    @Dave J.: I've consulted for the developers of iRider, a very innovative browser, and Google's been shafting them on referral revenue for years.
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    Image of Colander Colander
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    Why don't they just eat Firefox instead of murdering it and wasting it. I use Chrome but probably everybody uses Firefox, and I imagine they would be annoyed with this.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/31/09

    @Colander: How Native American of you.
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    03/31/09

    @Colander: Most of the video hosting sites I use to watch movies on only work with Firefox, dammit, am I going to have to go to a theatre and PAY now?
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    03/31/09

    @DeadliestSin: Hm. My Firefox keeps going wrong when I play videos in it - the sound won't work. So I'm forced to reload the vid in Chrome - guess what, it works! Is Google sabotaging them... or do I have a weird laptop?
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    Image of Greasy Thumb Guzik Greasy Thumb Guzik
    03/31/09

    @pufflehuff:

    You're not alone.

    I can't play a lot of videos in FFox & have to use IE Tab to see them.

    Nothing I try makes them work, but at least YouTube works.
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    Image of Gerald Douglas Gerald Douglas
    04/01/09

    @Greasy Thumb Guzik: @pufflehuff: I had that problem with streaming videos and radio but once I installed the Navigational Sounds add on in Firefox everything worked as it should.
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    Image of pufflehuff pufflehuff
    04/01/09

    @Gerald Douglas: Ah-ha! Will try that!
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    03/31/09

    In reply to Is Google Killing Firefox?
    I distrust how that fox won't look me in the eye. And what planet is he wiping his ass on?
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