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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. Pictures?? by Klanglor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Anyone seen the version? is it with a custom dell skin? just currious.

  2. Re:Great First Step by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They can't "buck" Microsoft by installing Firefox as IE is still installed. It's just giving users an alternative version to use.

    This is a carefully weighted decision based on its ease of support for Dell's staff. Hence we're more likely to see Firefox as a default install, along with iTunes, Realplayer, Winzip and goodness knows what else before we'll ever see Linux offered on the desktop. In any case 99% of prospective Dell buyers don't want Linux on it anyway, and would probably moan that it wasn't Windows if they did choose it...

  3. Same way with Netscape back in the day.. by ModernGeek · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ..back in the day, computers came with Netscape and MSIE installed. You'd see infomercials saying, "This computer comes with the two leading internet browsers. Netscape and Internet Explorer, so that you can choose which you'd like to use". It will just start bringing more competition to the table for MSIE. I feel bad because I remember in those days recommending that people uninstall Netscape and use IE.

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