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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?"

2 of 359 comments (clear)

  1. Not news by beforewisdom · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dell has done their experiments before...outside of the US and most often in their server related products.

    Wake me up when they install Firefox on their consumer desktops, in the U.S.

  2. This is BAD news by sinij · · Score: 0, Troll

    The *only* reason Firefox is more secure than IE is that it has lower market share, as a result less effort spent on compromising it. The same reason MAC has few, if any, viruses and exploits.