Yahoo Pushing IE7 On Firefox Users

El Lobo writes "Looks like things are heating up again in the browser wars. Google has been openly supporting Firefox, so now Yahoo is displaying a new feature on search results pages for FireFox users. It appears that Yahoo is pushing downloads of IE7 from Microsoft and including itself as the default search engine installed in the file menu area." I got the invitation to download IE7 when running Firefox on a Mac, and even when running IE5 under CrossOver; but not when running IE7 under Parallels.

Doomed to fail

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody's using Yahoo for search, including people who work at Yahoo.

Yahoo?

[thrillseeker]

Wasn't that one of the pre-Google search engines?

Re:Yahoo?

[Daath]

Here you go [google.com], and you're welcome :)

Oh the humanity

[Handlarn]

Yahoo and Internet Explorer 7 vs Google and Firefox 2...

What to chose? Hmmm... What to chose?

Re:Yahoo?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yahoo isn't totally useless as a search engine. Just look for Best Search Engine, and it'll point you the right way.

Re:Doomed to fail

[Yvan256]

Nobody's using Yahoo for search

Except Yahoo Serious [yahooserious.com].

Be independent.

[Chaffar]

Use the Lynx/Teoma combo.

Re:Oh the humanity

[Mitchell Mebane]

Clearly, Google wins. [googlefight.com]

Who?

[Iriestx]

Yah-who?

Re:Image search as well

[cp.tar]

assholes will be rendered in 3-D

Do we want a 3D goatse?

Now excuse me, I have to go and rinse my eyes with some acid.

Repositories

[Iriestx]

Boy.. I just can't seem to find this IE7 they recommend in any of the Ubuntu file repositories.

Re:Yahoo?

[slyguy135]

And in the Top Ten results for that search, MSN comes... nowhere at all. Even HotBot came 5th!

And it didn't come anywhere in the Top 40 either, pop music fans. Oh dear.

Re:Oh the humanity

[Pasquina]

Yahoo Agrees:

Yahoo and Internet Explorer 7: 9,170,000 results [yahoo.com]
Google and Firefox 2: 26,500,000 results [yahoo.com]

Re:Fair enough

[Salmar]

Yeah. A couple of icons on the desktop and in the start menu would have been much better. :)

Uh, I don't think you're clear about our discussion:

by Anti_Climax:

I hit one page looking for a free/open source application (wish I could remember which one it was) and was greeted with a large banner at the top and an audio recording saying my computer was "infected" with internet explorer and I should switch to Firefox to remedy it.

Were you thinking about how Firefox installs itself? It does what you described: it gives you options to place an icon on your desktop and/or the start menu. No sound recording.

On a tangential note, have you tried installing Firefox?