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:
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.
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?
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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/
- Firefox with Bing and Windows it seems...
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?