Is Upcoming Firefox 4 inspired by Google Chrome?

Firefox 4 might not be the sole product that is "inspired" by a Google product.

This just in: The news story 'Yes, Bing Has Been Copying Google Search Results FOR YEARS' found at http://www.businessinsider.com/bing-is-cribbing-from-google-...

Quoting:Microsoft uses browser toolbars to monitor what users search for and click on at Google, and then uses this information to improve Bing's search results.

Apparently, Google has just discovered this -- even though Microsoft has been talking about it for more than a year.

Hmm, a little reverse engineering to make a script to randomize fake results and send them to MS, I certainly see a powerful market of moral outrage for such an effort.

I'd gladly run such a script, wouldn't you?

BTW, the article you pointed to never loaded. It got to 149 of 150 images loaded, and locked up.

Maybe I should try Lynx... Yep. That worked.

Bob, I think Lynx and Midnight Commander are the cat's meow.

As for Microsoft, at least they were honest about using the freely available Mosaic to create Internet Explorer. I suppose they thought it would be too obvious not to be honest back then. They learned quickly...

Quoting:I'd gladly run such a script, wouldn't you?

yes.

Quoting:BTW, the article you pointed to never loaded. It got to 149 of 150 images loaded, and locked up.

Maybe I should try Lynx... Yep. That worked.

How fortuitous; the same basic Bing-copying-Google story is now accessible via http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/147361.

Maybe this LXer link will load more successfully for all browsers?

Bob: Maybe try FF4 (IceWeasel 4 in Deb?), it seems to work.

FF4 hasn't made it into Debian yet.

That's why I install from trunk!

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/lates...

Here's how to set it up: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/133401/index.html

It's really far better than 3.6.13, so that's why I'm using it almost exclusively as my browser now.

I have to add: chown it to root, or make sure the auto-updater is running. If you want both, you have to run as root to update (thanks bigg!). You can check the auto-updater via

Edit -> Preferences -> (Tab) Advanced -> (Tab) Update. Mine was auto-updated today, which shows it works!

IE9 interface imitate quite a lot from Chrome as well, but then I have to say Chrome imitate from Opera. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b2/Windows_Intern... Hate to say I envy IE9 single all purpose bar.

I can't use Firefox 4 yet until all my essential addons are compatible with it, but it's almost 100% there. Ofcourse, you can use "Add-on Compatibility Reporter" addon to install unsupported addons. I have been using Chromium exclusively for 6 months (and spoiled by the speed) and hoping to go back to Firefox.

Huh, you don't need all your FF-addons in Chrome?

Thats why I can't wait to get back to FF so I can use NoScript and Cookie Monster and GoogleSharing. In Chromium I have to disable java and cookies and enable them per site, its a pain. Yes Chromium has the buttons on top right too, but it doesn't work really well. For cookies, you have to add them to exceptions. Cookie Monster works just like NoScript.

I didn't realize it, but you can also install Fennec, interesting. Probably good for minimalist users.