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Speakeasy Embraces Firefox

Posted by timothy on from the when-free-is-valuable dept.

xdavexxx writes " Speakeasy, one of the largest DSL providers in the United States, recently announced that it will begin offering a specialized version of Mozilla Firefox to its customers. In doing so, they are one of the first internet companies to offer an official customized version of Firefox to its customers. This custom version of Firefox will keep the Firefox Google home page, but have the Speakeasy logo and feature a Speakeasy toolbar filled with links recommended by Speakeasy. No money was exchanged between the Mozilla Foundation and Speakeasy, as Firefox is open source and is freely available for use by anyone. Speakeasy's reasoning for this is simple; to increase the reliability and speed of its internet service." It should be pointed that Slashdot (and OSTG) have a partnership with Speakeasy.

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  1. support calls by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    Weenie: Good morning, Speakeasy Help Desk. How may I help you?
    User: Slashdot renders wrong in your ghey browser~()@*!@!(*
    Weenie: Ah, just ctrl-minus ctrl-plus.
    User: Woot! Thanks, mang!

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    1. Re:support calls by generic-man · · Score: 2, Funny

      User: Slashdot renders wrong in your browser
      Weenie: Well Slashdot is idiot because they do not code to XHTML 1.1 Strict with CSS3 like everybody else does.
      User: Oh that makes sense then.
      Weenie: Please sign my Internet petition to force them to use valid web juice or I will boycott them.
      User: OK I'm hanging up now.

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    2. Re:support calls by orasio · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wrong.
      It's spelled "Uruguay"
      http://www.seorf.ohiou.edu/~ae295/frames/simpsons/ homer2.html

  2. speakeasy 7 by natedubbya · · Score: 2, Funny

    The name, speakeasy, was used 7 times in 6 sentences on this post. Try some shorter pronouns, I hope we don't charge by the letter.

  3. This just in... by Anita+Coney · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Microsoft has asked the BSA to investigate claims that Speakeasy is using software without proper licensing and in violation of several patents.

    Stay tuned for more on this story as it develops.

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  4. Hah hah by gandell · · Score: 2, Funny
    Yes, but unfortunatly, even though firefox is superior software, eventually there will be spyware targeted to firefox.

    Well, I'll show them if they do! I'll move to Mozilla...
    Oh, wait...

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  5. Re:/. Doesn't render correctly? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    You notice more if you hit slashdot 20-50 times a day...

    Wait, I think I see the problem.

  6. Re:Good way to spread it by hobbesx · · Score: 2, Funny
    You're not kidding. I once worked for a small ISP that had a picture of a mountain at the top of their homepage for years. The browser install software would set their page as the default page. It turns out that they had used a copyrighted image for the original webdesign, and replaced it with a different mountain picture. I couldn't believe the number of calls we got, complaining that 'the mountain is different', 'my mountain is gone', or 'I can tell that I'm not getting online, because the mountain doesn't look right'.


    The only time I've had that many calls about the webpage before, was the time we auto-redirected the main page through a random babelfish language. Nothing quite as fun as getting a call that claims the 'Net is broken, cause it's in Spanish.

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  7. Re:SWEET! (or shinola?) by njcoder · · Score: 2, Funny
    "I know I'm old-fashioned, but I think coders should be paid for their work."

    Yeah... write a letter to RMS, see if he'll put something that insures that in the next version of the GPL.

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