Mozilla And Microsoft Introduce "Firefox With Bing"
Mozilla And Microsoft Introduce "Firefox With Bing"
Posted 10/27/2011 at 10:43am
| by Brad Chacos
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For a long time, Mozilla and Google were a match made in heaven. Both of them were spunky open-source aficionado and that common goal sent them into each other’s arms; even now, the vast majority of Mozilla’s funding comes from a search deal between the two organizations. Then, with the launch of Chrome, things got complicated. Google wasn’t quite the same search engine Firefox fell in love with. And now, Mozilla is officially Keeping Its Options Open with the unveiling of the new “Firefox with Bing” Browser.
The name pretty much says it all. It’s the same Firefox you know and love/hate, but with Microsoft’s Bing replacing Google as the default search engine and homepage. It isn’t a complete split for Google and Mozilla, though; while Microsoft hosts the simply named Firefox with Bing page, the version of Firefox found at Mozilla.org still packs in Google. But could Firefox with Bing a taste of the future? We may know soon enough – the agreement between Mozilla and Google is set to end next month.
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Holly Golightly
October 27, 2011 at 11:50pm
Hmm, I guess that is fine. I like the Bing homepage. It is pretty each and every single day. As long as I have FoxScape skin on top of FireFox, they can do whatever really.
Engelsstaub
October 27, 2011 at 12:42pm
Microsoft probably threatened suit, like they do to other open-source vendors who do stuff better than them, and extorted "licensing-fees" for infringing on MS's concept of a web-browser. They just told Mozilla "we'll drop all of this if you include Bing as your default search engine."
...or maybe not. But it does sound extremely similar to what they did and are doing to openSUSE and other open-source vendors with regards to their OSes. They just don't screw with Apple because, as you know and love to daily research, Apple is a big bully company too with a crack-team of expensive lawyers.
SilverSurferNHS
October 27, 2011 at 12:34pm
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
what a stupid idea
alexw1234
October 27, 2011 at 11:23am
I would love if Microsoft included Firefox in WIndows 8 instead of Internet Explorer. But I can only hope...
nmanguy
October 27, 2011 at 1:47pm
I would love it too, but the vast majority of users aren't like us. For them, the limited frills of IE10 is more than sufficient. Hell, I even tell my family members to use the default IE with Windows 7.
livebriand
October 27, 2011 at 9:31pm
IE9 is actually resonable, and I'm not in a huge hurry to try to switch people away from it. However, IE8 definitely sucked. It would be nice if Chrome came with Windows though, otherwise Firefox.
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