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Google & Firefox's Relationship

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-may-kiss-the-browser dept.

sebFlyte writes "More news from FOSDEM, this time about the depth of support for Firefox from Google. According to this article on ZDNet, Firefox' growth and Mozilla's staffing costs have been underpinned by the Foundation's tie-ins with Google, but they promise not to go the same way as Netscape by selling 'every bookmark and link'... and don't forget that the lead programmer (among others) is directly in Google's employ."

6 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. Re:gBrowser on the way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So what.

    I want gssh, gbash, g-gnumeric, and goffice.

  2. fosdem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Nothing smells as bad as geek eurotrash; not even American Republicans.

  3. +1 Insightful?! by kf6auf · · Score: -1, Troll

    Amusing yes. But Insightful?! Only if you've been living under a fricken boulder since before IE 4 came out. As long as you've clearly been away from /. and the Interweb for a while maybe I should explain that "tabbed browsing" is not the ability in lynx to tab between hyperlinks but rather a feature in something called a Graphical User Interface based browser that allows for multiple webpages to be open at once and allows the user to tab through them. So how did you get mod points?

  4. Re:I'd be by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Too bad the funding was so minor that it took 2 months to fix the latest batch of bugs/exploits. I remember last December /. posing the question "Wonder if Microsoft or Mozilla will respond first?". IE had a fix within 3 days, and it only took Mozilla 3 months to respond. Open source ... bah.

  5. gBrowser may eventually become GoogleOS by Vandil+X · · Score: -1, Troll

    They could then turn that fully integrated gBrowser into a shell that could run on top of Linux and give birth to GoogleOS.

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    Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, START
  6. Re:Desktop Search by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know, why did AOL own Mozilla for 5 years and NEVER switch over from using IE?!?!?

    I mean seriously, why?

    Answer: Moz was an unsaveable giant steaming pile. FF is just Pile Jr., already showing cracks and bugs from very poor design and programming practices.