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Microsoft smartens up, releases Live Search addon for Firefox
It may be several years late, but Microsoft has finally decided to acknowledge two things.First, that Firefox does, in fact, exist.
Second, that not having an official Live Search plugin for it was just plain stupid.
Just days ago, the addon appeared on the Mozilla repository. With all the talk recently about the strained relationship between between Mozilla and Google since Chrome's release, the move by Microsoft certainly isn't an unexpected one.
With about 260 installs since its release, Firefox users don't appear in a hurry to install Live Search.
Surprising? No, not really.
I think It's safe to say that most Firefox users either prefer Google, strongly dislike Microsoft, or a combination of the two.
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Jim said 1:53PM on 1-30-2009
What is the theme in the picture, anyone?
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David said 1:52PM on 1-30-2009
"First, that Firefox does, in fact, exist."
Microsoft has long acknowledged this, evidenced by the fact that of a specific Firefox version of Hotmail and how it worked together with Mozilla to design a single unified RSS icon to be shared by both Internet Explorer and Firefox (which still isn't used by Safari).
"Second, that not having an official Live Search plugin for it was just plain stupid."
Yep, Microsoft was stupid on that one - irrespective of its take up, Microsoft would have been smarter to release this much, much earlier.
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Lee Mathews said 1:54PM on 1-30-2009
Yeah...wasn't totally serious on the acknowledgement thing, but thanks for enlightening us on RSS thing!
Jim said 1:53PM on 1-30-2009
What is that theme in the picture, anyone?
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Lee Mathews said 1:53PM on 1-30-2009
It's Proto: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7540
Jim said 1:58PM on 1-30-2009
TY lee
Muffin_man said 2:19PM on 1-30-2009
I love Microsoft products but Live search really is rubbish.
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inteller said 2:49PM on 1-30-2009
Live search for firefox? What for all 4 users? What a waste of time Microsoft.
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alex1jam said 2:51PM on 1-30-2009
I will stick with my freedom and equality fo all company and just have Google search.
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Mozzball said 10:53PM on 1-30-2009
I love me some google, but between my computer, my blackberry, and my medical records, I think We'll hate them as badly as m$ in 10 years
Robert Palmar said 5:09PM on 4-16-2009
The downloads of this plugin are not an
measure of Live Search users on Firefox.
I have had Live Search as an option in
the Firefox search box along with other search
engines without the need for any "official" search plugins.
Since this has been possible from the onset of Live Search
it logical this was clearly not a priority for Microsoft.
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David Russell said 7:43AM on 1-31-2009
Or it could just be the fact that MSN Search is garbage, and has been since at least 2000.
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gonintendo said 6:18PM on 1-30-2009
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4610
Been around for a while.
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gonintendo said 6:18PM on 1-30-2009
9,049 weekly downloads
788,100 total downloads