Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

Re:Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings? by Matt_Cutts on Sunday May 06, 2012 @11:35AM (#3935343)

I've been using Ubuntu for years with both Chrome and Firefox and I've never seen issues like Firefox getting higher connection resets. I'm happy to ask people at Google to dig into this report, but I have to say this sounds completely off base to me. Google wants Google.com to work well with with Firefox.

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Re:Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings? by Symmetry on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:42PM (#3935895)

Right, it would make absolutely no sense for Google to try to make its services work less well on Firefox. Everybody using Google on Firefox is just as much a win for Google as everybody using Google on Chrome, the only thing that they get from their own web browser is not having to pay Mozilla to make Google the default search engine.

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Re:Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings? by Natsu on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:08PM (#3935775)

A long time ago, I went through a period where I was getting a lot of resets. But now, I'm just fine.

Perhaps it's just a problem with the particular machines he's connecting to? I use Firefox almost exclusively and I haven't seen any resets for ages now.

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Re:Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings? by diminish on Sunday May 06, 2012 @02:34PM (#3935867)

I am using firefox, and chrome on linux for 5 years already, and didnt notice such an error. I hope and don't expect Google to do ever such a trick to ff.

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