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Yahoo Pushing IE7 On Firefox Users

Posted by kdawson on from the buy-my-free-browser-please dept.

El Lobo writes "Looks like things are heating up again in the browser wars. Google has been openly supporting Firefox, so now Yahoo is displaying a new feature on search results pages for FireFox users. It appears that Yahoo is pushing downloads of IE7 from Microsoft and including itself as the default search engine installed in the file menu area." I got the invitation to download IE7 when running Firefox on a Mac, and even when running IE5 under CrossOver; but not when running IE7 under Parallels.

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  1. Sounds Like A Beat-Down by The+Lone+Man · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I say they settle this over a nice friendly game of Resistance: Fall of Man.

  2. Re:Fair enough by apendrag0n3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Couldn't agree more... {shameless advertisement: OPENBSD - Only one remote hole in the default install, in more than 10 years! http://www.openbsd.org/}

  3. Video demonstrating why IE7 is better than Firefox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I made a video demostrating why IE7 is better than Firefox2.0. Every boss should consider these points when making decision about browser policy in any company - small or large.

  4. Other considerations besides security. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I like OpenBSD, I use an OpenBSD based firewall. OpenBSD is my friend. But give me a break. OpenBSD and Linux aren't in the same ballpark.

    Linux has better performance, better driver support, a MUCH MUCH friendlier support community, and more choice of distributions, from embedded systems through desktops, servers, and clusters.

    1. Re:Other considerations besides security. by TheRaven64 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Linux has better performance, better driver support, a MUCH MUCH friendlier support community, and more choice of distributions, from embedded systems through desktops, servers, and clusters. I agree on some of those. Linux has better performance, and better scalability (I wouldn't run OpenBSD on anything with more than 4 CPUs). It also has better POSIX/SUS support. More distributions is true, but I don't think I'd count it as a good point. OpenBSD has better man pages, a saner userland than any Linux distribution I've used (only half a dozen, so I might have missed the good one).

      The friendlier support community is interesting. I've found the OpenBSD devs to be incredibly friendly and helpful people, as are the NetBSD people (with one or two exceptions).

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  5. Re:Fair enough by Crazyscottie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Asking purely out of curiosity, not out of disagreement (I've never used BSD)... What can BSD do that Linux can't?

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  6. I'd download IE7, if not for my pirated Windows :) by moogs · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yeah.. damn those genuine advantage..

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  7. Re:What's the problem? by Alex+Kraskramp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, come on! I just said I appreciated your comment (-:
    And by the way, in The Netherlands people of foreign origin generally have a better grasp on the language than native people.

    But, though this is an interesting discussing, it is off-topic. Could anyone moderate at least this reply down?

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  8. Re:Fair enough by Pengo · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Nice comments, but you didn't list a reason why one might prefer BSD over Linux, or what BSD does 'better'.

    Again, no flame.. I'm curious myself, it's been many years since I have touched BSD (OSX aside)