 Google To Buy Mozilla? |
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 Jul 15 2005, 10:24 AM
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Premium Member  Group: Members Posts: 169 Joined: 11-July 05 Member No.: 9,291  |
Everyone has been speculating, but will Google finally make the move to purchase Mozilla's FireFox?
Some say Google is secretly developing its own browser, but why would it? Google is a constant "plug" for FireFox and everything it offers Since the pre-1.0 stages of FireFox, Google's Gmail - have supported (and in some cases, required) the use of Firefox. Since March 30, 2005 the Google search engine has utilized the link prefetching feature of Firefox for faster searching. http://www.juiceenewsdaily.com/0605...le_mozilla.html source: juicenewsdaily |
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Jul 15 2005, 10:29 AM
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Newbie [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 37 Joined: 2-July 05 Member No.: 8,932 |
i agree why would google want to make a to make a browser for them self
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Jul 15 2005, 11:15 AM
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Sorry for not being active, Uni :( Group: Members Posts: 933 Joined: 24-August 04 From: South Wales, UK Member No.: 892 |
there has been talk of google making their own browser for a while, using people who worked on bith IE and FF to make thier the 'G-Browser' lol
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Jul 15 2005, 02:03 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 183 Joined: 24-April 05 From: Europe Member No.: 6,109 |
Hmm.. I still prefer my Firefox.
 Really, even if Google buys Mozilla (something that would surely rock the news out..), would that be the best option? I mean Mozilla is doing a great job in updating and developing new features for Firefox, and I don't see that is *required* that Google buys Mozilla, and with that Firefox. Now if everything would stay the same, and Google would sponsor Firefox to make it more popular than the buggy IE, then I don't have any problem with it. 
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Jul 15 2005, 03:52 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 15-July 05 Member No.: 9,458 |
Gah, I never even noticed all that! But I like Firefox the way it is, so I don't see why Mozilla'd let Google buy it over. >_< Google is Google, Firefox is Firefox!!
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Jul 15 2005, 04:29 PM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 2,325 Joined: 8-March 05 From: Mawson, Antarctica Member No.: 4,254 |
Well, if Google does buy Mozilla, then that means that we will have a Firefox Beta for months.
Also, your link for the source does not work. |
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Jul 15 2005, 05:03 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 287 Joined: 23-February 05 Member No.: 3,945 |
QUOTE(snlildude87 @ Jul 15 2005, 11:29 AM) Well, if Google does buy Mozilla, then that means that we will have a Firefox Beta for months. Also, your link for the source does not work.   Hehehe, nice one snlildude... Google did keep GMail in "beta" for a while though(wait, or is it still in beta)...
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Jul 15 2005, 06:27 PM
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Moderator Group: Members Posts: 2,325 Joined: 8-March 05 From: Mawson, Antarctica Member No.: 4,254 |
QUOTE(GM-University @ Jul 15 2005, 02:03 PM) Hehehe, nice one snlildude... Google did keep GMail in "beta" for a while though(wait, or is it still in beta)...
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Jul 15 2005, 07:05 PM
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apt-get moo  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,056 Joined: 28-May 05 From: Hertfordshire, England Member No.: 7,593  |
I wouldn't download and use the so-called 'G-Browser' as it would be biased towards Google. Like Micro$oft now encourage people to install the MSN toolbar, Google would probably bundle the Google toolbar into their browser. Would it conform to standards? And if so, which ones?
If Google bought out Mozilla it would be a downwards spiral. What browsers would be left??? |
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