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Firefox Creator No Longer Trusts Google

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the watching-the-watchmen dept.

watashi writes "Blake Ross the man whose scratched itch became the Firefox browser explains on his blog why he has a problem with Google's policy of promoting their own products over competitors' in search results. His main gripe is that the tips (e.g. "Want to share pictures? Try Google Picasa") result in an inability for other products (perhaps even Parakey?) to compete for the top slot on Google."

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  1. Re:His scratched itch became the Firefox browser by ScrewMaster · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My scratched itch became ringworm.

    You know, you could have gone all week and not cut loose with that particular bit of personal info.

    Next time feel like sharing, post something useful like your social and a couple of your credit card numbers.

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  2. Re:Parakey? by Archangel+Michael · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Funny, I'm running FF right now, it shows none of the problems you speak of. Currently FF is 33M, and all the sites I go to load just fine.

    IE 7 on the otherhand ....

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  3. Re:Parakey? by MaXiMiUS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I have 9 tabs open, and Firefox is using about 158MB of memory for me. It's also using some CPU (jumping around from 5-22%, and I'm not entirely sure why.. none of my extensions or tabs are doing much of anything). I have about 14 extensions installed, and only frequently use 4 of them. You can get all sorts of fun numbers based on how many tabs are opened, and how many extensions are installed.

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  4. MOD PARENT DOWN, MOD GP UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude you are a troll.. Read TSP's posts and you will quickly discover he changed jobs after 30 years

  5. Mod this guy down.......mod up TriSexualPuppy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Posts are nothing but flamebait. I dont get it.

  6. Re:Does he promote IE over Firefox? by starakurva · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Peas, porridge, hot.

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  7. Re:Does he promote IE over Firefox? by networkBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nitrogen fixing bacteria, cyanoacrylate, non sequitur. Take that!

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  8. Please educate yourself by deacon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    These people killed in the name of communism disagree with your flippant, jejune dismissal
    of their fate, and your attempt to apologize for their executioners.

    Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69) 49,000,000 ("great leap forward" and "cultural revolution")

    Jozef Stalin (USSR, 1934-39) 13,000,000 (the purges)

    Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975-79) 1,700,000

    Kim Il Sung (North Korea, 1948-94) 1.6 million (purges and concentration camps)

    Leonid Brezhnev (Afghanistan, 1979-1982) 900,000

    Slobodan Milosevic (Yugoslavia, 1992-96) 180,000

    Vladimir Ilich Lenin (USSR, 1917-20) 30,000 (dissidents executed)

    Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959-1999) 30,000