Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support

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Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday March 18, 2005 @04:28AM from the you-have-to-love-the-fox dept.

homerj79 writes "News.com.com is reporting that Yahoo! has pledged full support of Firefox across its entire site. Despite its search bar for Firefox, which was launched in February, users still had to revert back to IE for certain features of Yahoo, like customizing your Yahoo Messenger avatar via the web. A specific date has not been set, but the company did say it would not launch any new services until all existing one supported Firefox." Update: 03/18 18:24 GMT by Z : GraffitiKnight (among many others) wrote in to mention that the claim has been retracted by the Yahoo! central office.

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So Yahoo Supports Standards by Nom+du+Keyboard · 2005-03-18 04:31 · Score: 5, Funny

So Yahoo now supports standards.
Wow! News at 11.

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1. Re:So Yahoo Supports Standards by ackthpt · 2005-03-18 04:33 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  So Yahoo now supports standards.
  ...well they used to support Suffering Based Advertising (X10 Pop-Ups)
  #$*&! i DON'T want yer #&^$*(@ camera, shove it up your $&^$#*
  
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2. Re:So Yahoo Supports Standards by jacksonj04 · 2005-03-18 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Do you *really* want to go shoving a wireless X10 camera up someone's $&^$#*
  
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3. Re:So Yahoo Supports Standards by kosmicki · 2005-03-18 05:33 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You could make a tidy profit if you offered the .avi of it to the right people.
Yahoo! by Stanistani · 2005-03-18 04:33 · Score: 3, Funny

Well, this is certainly a cause for celebration.
What word could we yell in exultation?
Something short and perhaps cowboy-based?

Yeeeha!

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1. Re:Yahoo! by OmegaGeek · 2005-03-18 04:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  >Something short and perhaps cowboy-based?
  Neil?
  
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2. Re:Yahoo! by ackthpt · 2005-03-18 04:40 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Yeeeha!
  And this morning on Radio Classics they were playing an old "Our Miss Brooks" where a hill billy jazz band was supposed to be coming by the school and the teachers, student and principal were all practicing their lingo...
  Other to choose from:
  Wull, dog mah cats!
  Corn mah pone!
  Boy howdy
  
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3. Re:Yahoo! by That's+Unpossible! · 2005-03-18 04:52 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  perhaps cowboy-based?
  
  Yippee-kayay-motherfucker?
  
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Next thing you know... by suman28 · 2005-03-18 04:40 · Score: 2, Funny

MSN is also going to pledge full support of Firefox :)
1. Re:Next thing you know... by Sylver+Dragon · 2005-03-18 07:17 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Might I suggest changing your reality browser settings. It would seem that it failed to render the fairly obvious tags on the parent comment.
  
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What timing... by iJames · 2005-03-18 04:42 · Score: 2, Funny

I was just swearing at Yahoo! Movies last night, for promising to show me a movie trailer and then telling me at the last moment that I couldn't do it in Firefox. This was on a Mac, so I wasn't about to do it in IE.
Re:Yahoo not supporting Firefox after all by greyhoundpoe · 2005-03-18 04:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Scanning online news sources: 30 minutes
Typing up a quick summary: 10 minutes
Rubberstamp by editors: 5 minutes

Having your submission proven irrelevant within 7 minutes of being posted: priceless
That is nothing by SmallFurryCreature · 2005-03-18 04:46 · Score: 2, Funny

Just browse games.slashdot.org with opera. THE HORROR! A good browser but yikes what a horrible color rendering.

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Re:aaarrgh ... quality of life by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · 2005-03-18 05:01 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, way to go.

Let's go back to Lynx.

Nah, let's go back to Gopher!

Or let's just ditch the Internet, and bring back the BBS! :)

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Fox fires on Safari for Mac by WillAffleckUW · 2005-03-18 05:04 · Score: 3, Funny

Yeah, and then you can upgrade from Firefox to a good browser like Safari.

If I wanted to go on a Safari, I would have.

I'd rather twirl Fire with the Foxes.

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Slashdot should support Firefox by SunPin · 2005-03-18 05:22 · Score: 5, Funny

Big hint.

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So, does this mean by ShieldW0lf · 2005-03-18 06:14 · Score: 2, Funny

News.com.com is reporting that Yahoo! has pledged full support of Firefox across its entire site.

So does this mean we should all start getting our news from Yahoo instead of Slashdot?

:D

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