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From Microsoft: Firefox with Bing

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Interesting move, though hardly uncommon. If anything it's good to see Microsoft uncoupling the search engine and the browser.

I'm glad that it's hosted by Mozilla, at least it ought to keep up to date with regard to the latest versions. The Yahoo Firefox is less fortunate- it's still stuck on v5:

http://downloads.yahoo.com/firefox/

With the fact that you can't distribute customised versions of Firefox and still call it Firefox, it means you really need Mozilla to support it. I don't know if just changing a search engine counts though.

Visiting the page on an Ubuntu box yields a more or less blank page with the message "Sorry, this download is not supported by your system."

What download? I guess I'll never know.

I'm on Ubuntu 11.10, Firefox. The page shows a button that seems to want to install Bing as a search provider.

"Bing helps make decisions easier." That's true because I'm deciding to not install this.

Hmm, I guess I never knew how much "search engine integration" was in Firefox. I just assumed Google was configured as the default search provider and that's it.

Honest question - can someone explain to me how is this different than just changing the search provider to Bing in my current copy of Firefox? (corp PC here - can't try it out on my own now).

I see other commenters saying this isn't available on Ubuntu - why not?

I do not know, but I assume "defaults"

Does this mean Microsoft is finally going to give up on IE?

This is more like Firefox going to give up on Google for revenue.

Or play Google and Microsoft against each other when negotiating to renew the Firefox/Google contract that expires in November:

http://www.businessinsider.com/is-2012-armageddon-for-firefo...

"Sorry, this download is not supported by your system"

- Firefox with Bing and Windows it seems...

Now Firefox really can be the new IE.

That would be recursive, since IE is the tool of choice for downloading Firefox.

Three months later: Why is my hard drive full? Lemmie check the downloads folder..... OH GOD!

Don't worry, Metro on Windows 8 is entirely rendered using the IE10 engine. IE isn't dead yet.

Won't be surprised either when this page is the #1 search result for Firefox on bing.com

Wrong! http://www.bing.com/search?q=firefox

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