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Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by chc »

frabcus wrote: post #9
bonzoT wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

agreed. the term upgrade also brings with it a connotation of being better. I am doubtful that this is this case.

I've been using Firefox again recently - I stopped when it was slower and less stable than Chrome. These days it often feels faster than Chrome.

I think this can be generalized further:

I've been using $RELATIVELY_FRESH_BROWSER_INSTALL again recently. I stopped when it was slower and less stable than $BROWSER_I_HAVE_NOW_BEEN_USING_A_LONG_TIME.

These days it often feels faster than $BROWSER_I_HAVE_NOW_BEEN_USING_A_LONG_TIME.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by umeshunni »

sp332 wrote: post #5
cpeterso wrote: post #3

Calling a promo banner a "prompt" is a bit of an exaggeration. Also, the same "Upgrade to the new Firefox" message is also shown to Firefox versions less than the current version (34).

If this isn't a prompt, what would a prompt look like?

I dunno, something like this: http://imgur.com/HNQWMBq

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by ironmagma »

alexbardas wrote: post #21

Makes a lot of sense to me, Firefox is an excellent browser. I hope it will keep its independence though.

Chrome doesn't even work with its own company's social network plugin (Hangouts). I always have to switch to Firefox to use screen share.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by mbrutsch »

frabcus wrote: post #9
bonzoT wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

agreed. the term upgrade also brings with it a connotation of being better. I am doubtful that this is this case.

I've been using Firefox again recently - I stopped when it was slower and less stable than Chrome. These days it often feels faster than Chrome.

I use FF daily, for work, and wouldn't use anything else.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by bobajeff »

Good for Mozilla. They need some promotion from websites. I've heard that Google use to do this for them but I guess that changed once they made their own browser.

I'm still not going to use Yahoo search as it's really just Google search only not as good. Hopefully one day there will be a challenge to Google.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by danw3 »

bobajeff wrote: post #36

Good for Mozilla. They need some promotion from websites. I've heard that Google use to do this for them but I guess that changed once they made their own browser. I'm still not going to use Yahoo search as it's really just Google search only not as good. Hopefully one day there will be a challenge to Google.

I've just started using duckduckgo.com. Don't have any complaints so far.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by gordon_freeman »

I just don't understand Yahoo's user acquisition strategy here. I updated my Firefox to latest version a week ago and it took literally less than a minute for me to set Google as default search engine. I know that if given choice between Yahoo and Google, I'll almost always use Google for 2 main reasons: Search quality and it is just that I'm accustomed to making specific search queries on Google. The thing I don't understand here is: what Yahoo will gain by this deal with Mozilla? I mean why don't they try to improve the quality of their search product and gain users that way rather than forcing an inferior search as default on Firefox.

Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

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Post by yuhong »

sp332 wrote: post #30
yuhong wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think most of the complaints are about the user interface nowadays. It sometimes does have other problems, but that is probably because it takes a while for Yahoo to change.

Both the user interface and the spam filtering are awful. I only use it for a throwaway address (I personally don't pay for it, rohandhruva) so I've never tried any more "advanced" features. Why bother if it can't get the fundamentals right?

OK, I hasn't looked much at the spam filtering, so...
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