 siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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| [FireFox] Firefox now available with added MSN Not that I would ever touch this with a ten foot pole
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The Firefox web browser is now available in an MSN-customised version for users who prefer Microsoft's Bing search engine and want MSN as their home page. The new version comes a year after the Mozilla and Microsoft partnership produced Firefox with BING
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| MSN now blocked by FW.
Bing already is. Has been for 2 years. |
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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Thanks for this, I'm the better knowing how to handle such an app if someone were to approach me with a query as how to handle the actual guts of the Browser.
Being an old IE MVP, I'm still getting a handle an all things Moz Thanks to carpetshark3  for feeback and screengrabs.
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 ZZZZZZZPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to siljaline
Re: [FireFox] Firefox now available with added MSN Why would anyone want this?
What's so hard about changing those options manually....if you so choose?
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 RacerbobPremium
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Webster, NY | Once again, I do not see the issue with this. Seems that if you want the MSN version that you have to download that one and install it ? I do think that there would be some folks who do want this. Yes, it is a dumbed down version, but if Microsoft is helping the Mozilla people out with $$$$ to continue developing Firefox, then I am all for it. |
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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kudos:17 | It's the branding and security implications (read thread) that bother me. It's $$$ bottom line bloat ಠ_ಠ |
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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kudos:17 | reply to carpetshark3
If Moz is in bed with Facebook and MS, why don't they have a pick and choose features, that would work for me. |
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RacerbobPremium
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Webster, NY | said by siljaline:If Moz is in bed with Facebook and MS, why don't they have a pick and choose features, that would work for me.
Nobody is forcing anyone to enable the Facebook feature on Firefox and nobody is forcing anyone to install the MSN stuff. There is a choice to be made here by people who use Firefox. Nothing is being enabled by default and the MSN Firefox cannot be allowed to be installed unless you click on it to do so. Seems that this MSN/Bing deal is like an extension. |
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 IanPremium
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kudos:1 | reply to siljaline
So somebody decided that demographic of people who were smart enough not to use IE, yet would use Bing and MSN was large enough to create specific coding for? How many dozens?  |
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double widePremium
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 Santa FeI use Xfce, don't you wish Everyone did?Premium,ExMod 2002-7
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kudos:2 | reply to siljaline
I don't mind MSN so much, it's MSG I can't stand. 
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