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The copy of 3.6 I installed never had it to begin with. With the 4.0 upgrade install you now see the Bing option in the list. Guess which one is now 3rd in line?! Not Bing!
The copy of 3.6 I installed never had it to begin with. With the 4.0 upgrade install you now see the Bing option in the list. Guess which one is now 3rd in line?! Not Bing!
Of course! They wouldn't have it any other way!
That's quite alright. One other reason why I stayed with Opera or one of the other browsers ove FF was never having the option to add Bing as default but could only see a Google tool bar addon? Google or Yahoo as default?
It was never very inviting not having the same options or more even over IE. At least Opera offered Bing. I think Mozolla finally wised up a little!
I wouldn't doubt Chrome will fall into obscurity at some point as well as the Google OS. When upgrading to 4.0 it will depend on what addons you are presently running on 3.6 or another previous version. Here 3 were not carried over to 4.0 as indicated by the installer.
It is a very easy process to make most addons compatible. The only extensions I really care about are Adblock Plus, Tab Mix Plus and Stylish. They all are compatible and with stylish one can make Firefox look and act the way the user wants it to. All of the Browsers out there are about equal in speed, so it all boils down to preference. I have been using Firefox since it was called Phoenix and I am just used to it. I currently use 17 extensions and I only had to force compatibility on one of them. 2 Pane Bookmarks.
There's an option to add Bing onto the previous versions. I had Bing on at one time but never got to that for the last 3.6 install.
That was when Bing was still new when finding the option. Now that Bing has been around for a period of time Mozilla apparently decided to include it in the 4.0 release.
GTX11 does have a few things correct there about browsing speeds. Having had several browsers on at the same time while making some comparisons with under a dozen they were averaging about the same when seeing each load the same page.
As for preferences the list of them was narrowed down rather fast as to which ones would remain or be removed entirely. Chrome, Flock, bloodfire tossed. Opera, FF, Ice Weasel(couldn't find a Konqueror for Windows), and Netscape Navigator 9(last version) were to remain while the last two are still subject to removal at any time.
Note these were all compared several months ago along witn IE 8 well before the 9 beta was first seen. Unfortunately due to continual problems of one type seen at a site I frequent I may have roll back to IE 8 temporarily rather then the need to open a second browser's window.
Well I thought I had more than a few things correct. I do not use Google for anything nor Bing. I use IXquick for searching as it works without tracking my searches. One can use whatever search engine they want to. The choice is not Mozilla's but the end users.