Part of a more strategic move I believe for Yahoo! to get back into the search business. When their 10 year contract with Microsoft is up I would not be surprised to see them switch to a new index of their own making. What has always been interesting to me about search though is that the two big players who have a lot to gain by having their own search index (Facebook and Apple) have so far chosen not to go there. Putting on my prognostication hat I see Yahoo! shipping on a new index in 2016 and being bought by either Apple(most need) or Facebook(most likely) in 2017 :-)
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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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.
That would defeat the purpose of their existence.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
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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.
Browsers aren't like Windows 98. You don't need to reformat or defragment from time to time.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
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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.
Firefox still doesn't have per process tabs(yes I know about nightlies), so it's a no go for me.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Does this apply when all the major browsers (save IE, though it's been a while) update unobtrusively?
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
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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.
It's the end 2014. Has anyone implemented pinch-to-zoom on Firefox yet?
Nope. Pinch to zoom "works", but it's the same zoom increments as Ctrl - and Ctrl =.
I've been using Firefox for a few years (switched back from Chrome), but it's IE for me on the Surface until someone else does proper touchscreen support. The only time I open Firefox on here is when I need a bookmark that's synced from my desktop or phone.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
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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've been using Firefox for several months and have no regrets. On Ubuntu Chrome was doing all sorts of weird things, plus being slow. Firefox's tab groups is also a great feature.
I can second the Ubuntu motivation. Chrome is buggy and unreliable on Ubuntu, and I was tired of the Aw Snap several times a week. Firefox appears to be much more stable, and Developer Edition looks better too.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#68Good 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 use duckduckgo mainly, because I like what they are doing. From time to time I will get search results that aren't very relevant. In these cases, I just prepend '!google' to my search.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
#69Seems like that has no doubt been an important part of the deal that Yahoo! and Mozilla made. It's an interesting way to get back at Google's heavy promotion of Chrome on their properties.
agreed. the term upgrade also brings with it a connotation of being better. I am doubtful that this is this case.
This is a very broad statement. I use both browsers because each has slightly different behavior in some edge cases that I prefer. To me, firefox is occasionally an upgrade, and chrome occasionally is.
Re: Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox
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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.
Browsers aren't like Windows 98. You don't need to reformat or defragment from time to time.
Installing extensions can dramatically slow down browsers. I wonder if the lack of extensions is responsible for the quickness users experience with a fresh install.