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Dell Pre-Installing Firefox in UK

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-they-get-battlestar-galactica-first-too dept.

seizer writes "Blake Ross, creator of Firefox, has confirmed on his blog that Dell are now shipping Firefox on all desktop and laptop machines in the UK. While rumours had been floating around before this, and UK buyers had been reporting that 1.0.6 came pre-installed, this is the first official confirmation of Dell's decision. Is the US next?"

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  1. This is nuts.. by ronsta · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, am outraged. Could you imagine if Microsoft did the same thing and had Internet Explorer installed on every new computer?

    Oh wait...

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  2. And somewhere else by TheSpoom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Inside the corporate offices of Microsoft, a chair is thrown.

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