RSSMozilla, eBay Team on Customized Firefox
By the Betanews Staff | Published July 5, 2007, 12:28 PM
Mozilla said Thursday that it had teamed with eBay to offer a version of its Firefox browser that is optimized for use with the auction site. In addition, eBay has released an add-on for those who want to add the functionality to an existing copy of the browser. The browser and add-on are available for several European countries including the UK, France and Germany. No US version was available as of press time.
Some of the new functionality in Firefox eBay Edition include a sidebar that would allow users to follow their auctions in real time, status alerts for various events including outbid notices, integrated search, and support for eBay's Account Guard product. Financial terms of the deal between eBay and Mozilla were not disclosed.
Moz joins the Dark Side.........
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Nobody's forcing you to use it, you know...
Honestly, Mozilla is probably the most successful consumer-oriented open source product out there. Why are people so quick to jump on them when they're proving that open source can be profitable?
It especially makes me laugh because these are the same people who piss and moan about long-standing bugs not getting fixed and tell Mozilla to hire more developers.
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Mozilla have been shooting themselves in the foot for a year now... not my idea of sucees at all.
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You have yet to make an reasoned argument as to why this is such a bad thing. All it is is a copy of Firefox with an addon included by default that people who use eBay heavily can choose to download if they desire and choose not to download if they don't want it. What's so bad about that?
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Hmm, I'm giving it a try right now, looks useful to me =)
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This has been out for sometime now. I believe I have been using it for about 6 weeks on my mac. However today I uninstalled it and installed standard firefox
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