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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).
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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.
On my Linux MINT machine, chrome keeps doing something[1] that ends up locking up my whole machine and I have to hard-reboot. It got to a point where I actually had to set up Ctrl+Alt+K to issue "pkill -9 chrome" so as soon as I see the mouse-pointer movement become non-smooth or music start to skip, I slam on those keys to kill chrome before I have to restart my whole machine. Then I just went to Firefox developer e…
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.
Too 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.
It doesn't come across to me as being good advertising.
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Do you mind sharing why you still use Yahoo Mail, let alone paying to use it? (serious question)
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.
That would probably make me stop using Yahoo. Although I grudgingly accept a similar prompt on mobile Workflowy (I use firefox there and are prompted to use Chrome for it) even though it annoys the crap out of me. There is not even a possibility to turn this off. But for Yahoo I have alternatives for workflowy not (yet).
Yep, exactly. Google would never sink so low as to advertise.
That would probably make me stop using Yahoo. Although I grudgingly accept a similar prompt on mobile Workflowy (I use firefox there and are prompted to use Chrome for it) even though it annoys the crap out of me. There is not even a possibility to turn this off. But for Yahoo I have alternatives for workflowy not (yet).
I respect Yahoo more than google . just listen to what ed snowden told a while ago , Yahoo was one of the companies who fight against NSA , but google did'nt . please correct me if I am wrong .
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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.