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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 colechristensen »

bonzoT wrote: post #6
dochtman wrote: post #2

Seems 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.

I wear both glasses and contacts, I regularly upgrade from one to the other because I am annoyed by a particular aspect of each. Much the same with browsers I regularly switch between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox because the upgrades/site/support/whatever become troublesome or advantageous.

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

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Post by gw »

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 switched back to Firefox recently as well after using Chrome for years. Mostly it was due to problems on Linux, like Flash not working. I also love the work Mozilla has been doing -- Rust, Servo, and asm.js in particular -- which seem to be very promising vis-à-vis future versions of their browser.

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

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Post by notatoad »

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'm still not going to use Yahoo search as it's really just Google search

Yahoo is a Bing frontend now. Same as DuckDuckGo.

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

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Post by jgallag8 »

glaslong wrote: post #79
jgallag8 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Now that I've gotten used to them, I really like the !bang operators. They're incredibly convenient. A few of the ones I abuse constantly: !g - google !bi - bing image !yt - youtube !so - stackoverflow !w - wikipedia !py - python docs The exhaustive list is here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

Didn't know you could just use '!g'. Very cool!

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

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Post by pconner »

j_baker wrote: post #47

My first question: is this intentional or is it a bug? This wouldn't be the first time a website has mistakenly prompted a user to upgrade their browser.

It sounds like intentional marketing-language to me. It's not uncommon for physical products to be referred to as "The New *" whenever they get some sort of change. In this case, it's a newer version of Firefox, and people viewing this ad on other browsers might not have tried Firefox since its last couple of upgrades.

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

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Post by wjoe »

I don't see any such notice if I try going to Yahoo in Chrome. Perhaps because I'm in Europe where Yahoo doesn't have the search deal with Mozilla. Or perhaps it's just confused with the Linux user agent or something.

Happy Firefox user here though. Glad they aren't so reliant on Google funding now, I expect the Yahoo/Baidu/Yandex deal with get them more money than Google alone, without being too reliant on any one party.

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

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Post by hobs »

debacle wrote: post #63
chc wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Already covered by other commentators, but this is straight up wrong if they are implemented in certain fashions.

Here is a large history causing slow load times; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=223476

Here is their recommendations regarding download history, which I myself have experienced (too many downloads remembered forever slows down the browser) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hangs-or-not-re...

There is nothing inherent in the design of A hypothetical browser that would make it slower over time, its just a matter of people make assumptions and those assumptions are often wrong, and then performance suffers.

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

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Post by datamatt »

ironmagma wrote: post #34
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.

I haven't encountered problems with Hangouts. But the new Firefox Hello service for in browser webcam chats is pretty awesome: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hello-make-rece...

(disclaimer: I do actually work for mozilla)

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

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Post by Maascamp »

b-ryan wrote: post #15
frabcus wrote: post #9

Earlier 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'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'm on the same page. Chrome locks my computer around once a day on Ubuntu. Startup is horribly slow as well.
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