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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. Makes sense... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fewer Malware programs target FireFox, less security vulnerabilities, means less bandwidth is used by said malware and more by the actual customers.

    Kudos, Speakeasy.

  2. 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!

    --
    Trolling is a art,
  3. Re:Wrong place to start by grub · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually by replacing IE they are pretty much ending the use of ActiveX over their network. Less 0wn3ed machines == less spam/zombies/what have you. It is proactive on their part.

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    Trolling is a art,
  4. Re:Wanted by Secrity · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a modified form of the game of "Chicken". It would be a good thing if Firefox waits and sees whether it needs to lower itself to the level of the broken websites. Firefox is currently gaining market share. If Firefox stops gaining market share before the majority of the important IE only websites get fixed, then it would be necessary to make Firefox work with non-compliant websites. If Firefox gains sufficient market share without pandering to broken (IE only) websites, then the broken websites will have a strong incentive to work with standards based browsers. If Firefox panders to the broken websites, then the broken websites will have no incentive to fix themselves to work with standards based browsers

  5. It's a plugin by j2brown · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, I actaully followed one of the links. It's a plugin. The FF download it right from mozilla.org

    http://www.speakeasy.net/software/firefox/

    jeff
    sdg