Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by alexbardas on Friday December 12, 2014 @04:14PM (#8742736)

Makes a lot of sense to me, Firefox is an excellent browser. I hope it will keep its independence though.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by callahad on Friday December 12, 2014 @04:19PM (#8742760)

The switch from a single worldwide Google deal to three regional deals with Yahoo, Yandex, and Baidu feels like a nice assertion of that independence.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by ironmagma on Friday December 12, 2014 @04:27PM (#8742793)

Chrome doesn't even work with its own company's social network plugin (Hangouts). I always have to switch to Firefox to use screen share.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by datamatt on Friday December 12, 2014 @05:29PM (#8743108)

I haven't encountered problems with Hangouts. But the new Firefox Hello service for in browser webcam chats is pretty awesome: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-hello-make-rece...

(disclaimer: I do actually work for mozilla)

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by ironmagma on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:19PM (#8743497)

Seems only tangential, since I don't see anything about group calls or screen share (which are the main features we need Hangouts for).

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by dao- on Friday December 12, 2014 @08:27PM (#8743706)

I believe group calls will be in Firefox 35. Not sure about screen sharing, but it's being worked on and coming soon.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by chambo622 on Friday December 12, 2014 @04:41PM (#8742879)

That may be true for you, but I assure you that is not generally the case.

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