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Mozilla Nixes Firefox EULA Requirement

Posted by timothy on from the even-in-the-best-homes dept.

Less than a week ago, Mozilla asked (and Canonical relucantly agreed, in development versions of Intrepid Ibex) that users be required on first use to agree to a EULA before using Firefox. This drew lots of criticism, and Mozilla agreed that the requirement was flawed. Now, according to a story at Groklaw, the EULA requirement's been done away with. From the Groklaw article linked: "Bottom line: Now, you can install and use Firefox without having to agree to a EULA. The services have been separated out. If they were opt in instead of opt out, I'd be happier, but this is acceptable to me. There may be further tweaks, I understand, but I think it's time to acknowledge that Mozilla is behaving very well indeed now and demonstrating a desire to get this right."

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  1. Awesome Bar by gumpish · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd gleefully click through a hundred EULAs if I could use Firefox 3 without the Awesome Bar.

    (And I hope that by now everyone understands that OldBar and the about:config variables matchBehavior and matchOnlyTyped still allow the Awesome Bar to search page titles. There is no way to get the bar to only search against URIs. Period.)

    1. Re:Awesome Bar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The article is about Mozilla responding to community complaints about Firefox. While the particular item that they agreed to drop was the click through EULA, diabling the Awful Bar should be the next item on the list and therefore not offtopic imo.

    2. Re:Awesome Bar by QuantumG · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Everyone I know agrees that the awesome bar is exactly that, awesome.

      If you didn't want the new features, why did you upgrade?

      --
      How we know is more important than what we know.
  2. Re:Sure, they're good guys by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok heres a lol, I just mod'd the parent post insightful and then go to do some meta moding. One of the posts was this very one, here I thought that /. would have avoided getting someone to meta-mod their own modings.

  3. Re:Sure, they're good guys by niteshifter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... Put your license and other info under "Help"... people will see it if/when necessary.

    You're kidding, right? You mean that Help that people click only after dialing 3, 4 or 10 digits on a phone and calling someone? Who then treks down the hall / across town to move the mousie thing for them? That "Help"?