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From Microsoft: Firefox with Bing

37 points by xtacy 15y ago

untog 15y ago
Interesting move, though hardly uncommon. If anything it's good to see Microsoft uncoupling the search engine and the browser. I'm glad that it's hosted by Mozilla, at least it ought to keep up to date with regard to the latest versions. The Yahoo Firefox is less fortunate- it's still stuck on v5: http://downloads.yahoo.com/firefox/ http://downloads.yahoo.com/firefox/
- keeperofdakeys 15y ago
  With the fact that you can't distribute customised versions of Firefox and still call it Firefox, it means you really need Mozilla to support it. I don't know if just changing a search engine counts though.
snorkel 15y ago
"Bing helps make decisions easier." That's true because I'm deciding to not install this.
portmanteaufu 15y ago
Visiting the page on an Ubuntu box yields a more or less blank page with the message "Sorry, this download is not supported by your system." What download? I guess I'll never know.
- jtreminio 15y ago
  I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, Firefox. The page shows a button that seems to want to install Bing as a search provider.
bkaid 15y ago
Won't be surprised either when this page is the #1 search result for Firefox on bing.com
- barista 15y ago
  Wrong! http://www.bing.com/search?q=firefox http://www.bing.com/search?q=firefox
Tloewald 15y ago
Now Firefox really can be the new IE.
- sixtofour 15y ago
  That would be recursive, since IE is the tool of choice for downloading Firefox.
  - sukuriant 15y ago
    Three months later: Why is my hard drive full? Lemmie check the downloads folder..... OH GOD!
- keeperofdakeys 15y ago
  Don't worry, Metro on Windows 8 is entirely rendered using the IE10 engine. IE isn't dead yet.
ryan_s 15y ago
Does this mean Microsoft is finally going to give up on IE?
- Poyeyo 15y ago
  This is more like Firefox going to give up on Google for revenue.
  - cpeterso 15y ago
    Or play Google and Microsoft against each other when negotiating to renew the Firefox/Google contract that expires in November: http://www.businessinsider.com/is-2012-armageddon-for-firefox-2010-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/is-2012-armageddon-for-firefo...
joe_the_user 15y ago
"Sorry, this download is not supported by your system" - Firefox with Bing and Windows it seems...
chadgeidel 15y ago
Hmm, I guess I never knew how much "search engine integration" was in Firefox. I just assumed Google was configured as the default search provider and that's it. Honest question - can someone explain to me how is this different than just changing the search provider to Bing in my current copy of Firefox? (corp PC here - can't try it out on my own now). I see other commenters saying this isn't available on Ubuntu - why not?
- sukuriant 15y ago
  I do not know, but I assume "defaults"

37 points by xtacy 15y ago

untog 15y ago

Interesting move, though hardly uncommon. If anything it's good to see Microsoft uncoupling the search engine and the browser. I'm glad that it's hosted by Mozilla, at least it ought to keep up to date with regard to the latest versions. The Yahoo Firefox is less fortunate- it's still stuck on v5: http://downloads.yahoo.com/firefox/ http://downloads.yahoo.com/firefox/

keeperofdakeys 15y ago
With the fact that you can't distribute customised versions of Firefox and still call it Firefox, it means you really need Mozilla to support it. I don't know if just changing a search engine counts though.

snorkel 15y ago

"Bing helps make decisions easier." That's true because I'm deciding to not install this.

portmanteaufu 15y ago

Visiting the page on an Ubuntu box yields a more or less blank page with the message "Sorry, this download is not supported by your system." What download? I guess I'll never know.

jtreminio 15y ago
I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, Firefox. The page shows a button that seems to want to install Bing as a search provider.

bkaid 15y ago

Won't be surprised either when this page is the #1 search result for Firefox on bing.com

barista 15y ago
Wrong! http://www.bing.com/search?q=firefox http://www.bing.com/search?q=firefox

Tloewald 15y ago

Now Firefox really can be the new IE.

sixtofour 15y ago
That would be recursive, since IE is the tool of choice for downloading Firefox.
- sukuriant 15y ago
  Three months later: Why is my hard drive full? Lemmie check the downloads folder..... OH GOD!
keeperofdakeys 15y ago
Don't worry, Metro on Windows 8 is entirely rendered using the IE10 engine. IE isn't dead yet.

ryan_s 15y ago

Does this mean Microsoft is finally going to give up on IE?

Poyeyo 15y ago
This is more like Firefox going to give up on Google for revenue.
- cpeterso 15y ago
  Or play Google and Microsoft against each other when negotiating to renew the Firefox/Google contract that expires in November: http://www.businessinsider.com/is-2012-armageddon-for-firefox-2010-11 http://www.businessinsider.com/is-2012-armageddon-for-firefo...

joe_the_user 15y ago

"Sorry, this download is not supported by your system" - Firefox with Bing and Windows it seems...

chadgeidel 15y ago

Hmm, I guess I never knew how much "search engine integration" was in Firefox. I just assumed Google was configured as the default search provider and that's it. Honest question - can someone explain to me how is this different than just changing the search provider to Bing in my current copy of Firefox? (corp PC here - can't try it out on my own now). I see other commenters saying this isn't available on Ubuntu - why not?

sukuriant 15y ago
I do not know, but I assume "defaults"