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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. Re:Fair enough by lixee · · Score: -1, Troll
    Hell I've even seen a "Screw IE" button once on some "respected" site
    MS has proven to be a monopolistic bully (Netscape days, anyone?). It's our right/duty as consumers to spread the word.
    Linux free for over 10 years.... And proud of it!
    Just like every other lemming around. Nothing to be proud of in particular.
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  2. THIS IS GOATSEX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    and the BazAar h4lt. Even Emacs For all practical up today! If you

  3. Re:Apples and oranges by aichpvee · · Score: -1, Troll

    You must be a fucking moron. How unfortunate for you. You didn't have a point and you made it poorly.

    On topic, why would any Firefox users even see that ad? Aren't we all using adblock by now?

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