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Google Paying for Firefox Installs

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the paid-to-play dept.

slashkitty writes "Google updated their AdSense service to pay publishers for referrals. What's interesting is that now they pay publishers $1 US for each FireFox download with the Google Toolbar installed. Is this the bump that Firefox needs to boost downloads? Will Google be able to pay the millions for all the downloads?"

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  1. The google extension crashes my Firefox! by ylikone · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I run Firefox on my Linux box here at home... and I just installed the google extension to check it out. Upon restarting my Firefox, it comes up for a brief second, then promptly crashes and dissappears! So, I had to load up Opera to go look up how to manually remove extensions so I can get Firefox to run again. Seems like a piece of shitty coding to me. Is this the best Google can do?

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    Meh.