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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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Pamela Strangeways
03/31/09

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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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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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maevemealone
03/31/09

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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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Dagrolord
03/31/09

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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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macbeach
03/31/09

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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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MattGaymon
03/31/09

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

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Whatever. Call me when Chrome is actually available for Mac!
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macbeach
03/31/09

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

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

Plus, I always wanted to say that.
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iplaudius
03/31/09

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I use both. Can’t we all just get along?
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narnio
03/31/09

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"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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Calraigh
03/31/09

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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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macbeach
03/31/09

@Calraigh: Try doing with the WINE emulator for Linux.
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Dave J.
03/31/09

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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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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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Colander
03/31/09

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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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Mount_Prion
03/31/09

@Colander: How Native American of you.
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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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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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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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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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pufflehuff
04/01/09

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

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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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