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Yahoo Pledges Full Firefox Support

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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 Update: 03/18 18:24 GMT by Z : GraffitiKnight (among many others) wrote in to mention that the claim has been retracted by the Yahoo!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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  1. fp by ek-1000-ek · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

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    1. Re:fp by soapdog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      man, I remember in the-good-old-days when first post trolls used to write at least a complete sentence like "Geee All Your First p0st are belong to us".... fp... ick... damn

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  2. What About Slashdot??!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So did slashdot fix that bug with Firefox where slashdot wouldn't load up right?

    That's been happening a ton with Firefox 1.0.1.

  3. MODS Listen Up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was just reading the FAQ on moderation, and I came across something that would make a good screenshot:

    Take a comment (Troll, Flamebait, Offtopic) and then label it underrated several times to get +5 Troll, Flamebait, Offtopic.

    I just think that could be a pretty good sight to see, and might make for a good chuckle.

    1. Re:MODS Listen Up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      no just...no

  4. Grammatical errors by Sloppyjoes7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does anyone else get annoyed when people add apostrophes to possessive pronouns?

    In other words, there is no apostrophe in "its."

    It should read:
    "News.com.com is reporting that Yahoo! has pledged full support of Firefox across its entire site.

    I suppose the only reason this annoys me is because it is such a common mistake in website headlines. To mod me up would help all the starving children around the world who are being subjected to poor English in their news stories.

  5. Re:Ahhhh.... but when will Slashdot? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SlashFix extention
    or you could just roll your mouse wheel

  6. Re:Ahhhh.... but when will Slashdot? by ip_fired · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I used to have that problem as well. But I discovered that it was because I had turned on pipelining. Once I turned that off, slashdot rendered correctly again.

    It usually manifested itself by drawing posts over the menu. Type about:config in your browser and make sure pipelining is off.

    I also noticed that Google Maps has difficulty when pipelining is on as well.

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  7. Re:extensions ... adblock? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Well done for the most idiotic post ever on Slashdot.

    You get more than one cookie for this one!

  8. SLASHDOT!!1one by thepotoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    3) Why has complaining about slashdot standards support become an exercise in growing your karma, all these redundant posts are always modded interesting in any discussion regarding the web.

    I think slashdot does not render correctly in firefox. Maybe they should recode the site.

    WTF? I got modded a redundant troll? But you said...

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  9. Gmail ActiveX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now if only Google can get off their buts and not require ActiveX for accessing Gmail from IE.