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Microsoft introduces Firefox with Bing
SOFTWARE FIRM Microsoft has announced that the Firefox web browser is now available with its Bing search engine.
The firm revealed in a blog post that it had been working hard with apparent rival Mozilla to add the Bing search option to the web browser that is nipping at its market share.
"You have told us to make it even easier to use Bing in Firefox," said Tor Steiner of the Bing team.
"Today we're teaming with Mozilla to release Firefox with Bing, a version of the popular Web browser that includes default search settings for Bing. Now Firefox users who are Bing enthusiasts can use Firefox with Bing to use the Web the way they want without having to take extra steps to navigate or customize their settings to Bing."
So some users might like the fact that Bing can be set as a homepage in Firefox and can be installed as the default setting in the Firefox search bar.
Bing Search for Firefox is offered as a browser add-on. µ
Tags: MicrosoftInternetSoftware
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Firefox allows you to select any searchengine though, so I guess what the author is trying to say that MS is hosting FireFox with bing set as default choice now?
So I did a whois on the domain www.firefoxwithbing.com and I get:
Registrant:
Domain Administrator
Microsoft Corporation
So no money was needed to exchange hands JohnL, FF is open source and MS is free to host it, although it's a bit embarrassing for their IE, and I'd not trust it.
And incidentally: "working hard with apparent rival Mozilla to add the Bing search"? that takes all of 12 seconds to use the already existing functionality and they didn't even have to send them as much as an email.
I wonder whether uSoft is paying Mozilla for this deal, as I believe Google do?