Funny. And google is prompting me to upgrade to chrome. I wonder what would happen if I would use some MS service.
Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
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Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#52Makes 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.
That may be true for you, but I assure you that is not generally the case.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#53Given the number of times Google has prompted me to "upgrade" to Chrome, this is only fair game.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#54Calling 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).
Using the more general (non-computer) verb "prompt", it just means to "encourage" someone. So saying that Yahoo is prompting (or encouraging) people to switch is by no means an exaggeration. Edit: removed "upgrade" and replaced it with "switch" as to not imply one is an upgrade over the other. Browser choice is very much a personal preference.
Upgrade to the new Mozilla Chrome^w^w Firefox.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#55Too bad their shitty mail service does not play nicely at all with Firefox. Seriously, Yahoo Mail does not even allow me to attach a PDF when I'm in Firefox.
There's a raft of other functionality issues which drove me to the decision to migrate 15 years worth of emails out of it.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#56I 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 u…
You're not the typical browser user. Most people have no clue.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#57Good 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.
I tried to use duckduckgo too. but I gave up because google is a very integrated experience, it can search map and has gmail, google news. duckduckgo needs these additional services to really compete with google. openstreetmap isn't as powerful as google map.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#58I 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 u…
I have been running Aurora and when it switched to Yahoo I just kept it. There are a few times when I find the results dissapointing, but I have no special affinity for Google or Google search. In terms of brand loyalty Google has removed any reason to be "loyal" to their search brand and has been operating on being better then everyone else, however its getting close for most mainstream searches and if I can support…
Same here. Amusingly, it actually took me a day or two to realize that the search engine had changed (I finally noticed that the emoticon in the tab was different).
It's true that Yahoo's results are sometimes noticeably worse than Google's. The result I want can often be at the third or fourth position on the page, rather than first (where it most often is on Google). Given that Google is obviously personalizing my results based on my query history (unless the Rust programming language is really the world's most popular interpretation of the term "Rust"...), I'll be curious to see if Yahoo does the same over time.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#59Firefox also automatically updated my default search on every device to Yahoo, even though I deselected that option.
I was pretty pissed about that.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#60Earlier 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.
After 12+ years of service they deleted my secondary email account because I hadn't visited it in less than a year ("username has been recycled"), then wouldn't let me re-claim the username, and have no support contact for it. I will never trust them with anything important.
You made me launch my old Yahoo account to be sure it's still there.
Then I tried to respond to an email in Yahoo! Mail, and EVERYTIME I HIT THE LETTER 'i' IT POPS UP A CHAT DIALOG BOX WTF. Sorry, but it's really frustrating.