In super important news from Fox Business News, Firefox has overtaken Microsoft and Apple as the most used search engine. This breaking headline brought to you, in all likelihood, by some clueless intern.
http://gizmodo.com/5272417/fox-business-network-thinks-microsoft-and-apple-are-search-engines
I know it's Fox News, but still...
Does anyone wonder if people are bothering to fact check anymore when any story is done about the internet? More and more, people just throw random words around to sound more technologically aware. I'm sure I could dig up more similarly clueless stories...
Edited, May 29th 2009 12:17pm by Pawkeshup
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Olorinus the Ludicrous wrote:
The idea of old school is way more interesting than the reality
The link in the op goes to a page with a headline and a picture and another link to another page with a whole bunch of headlines. I found the headline in question and clicked the link, which took me to the picture that was on the original link.
I found no Fox Story. Plz find and link the actual Fox story so we may make proper fun of Fox News.
I found no Fox Story. Plz find and link the actual Fox story so we may make proper fun of Fox News.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
Judging from the image, it wasn't a Foxnews.com headline but something in their televised broadcasts.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Trying to find it from their site, but this is what appeared on their news channel, which is where the link (should) be leading you.
lulz!
It's from a video on their site when they interviewed the head of Mozilla.
The funny is at 1:55
http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/22377875/firefox-heats-up-the-web-world.htm#q=firefox+search+engine
Edited, May 29th 2009 12:39pm by Pawkeshup
lulz!
It's from a video on their site when they interviewed the head of Mozilla.
The funny is at 1:55
http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/22377875/firefox-heats-up-the-web-world.htm#q=firefox+search+engine
Edited, May 29th 2009 12:39pm by Pawkeshup
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Olorinus the Ludicrous wrote:
The idea of old school is way more interesting than the reality
It's sickening how many people in my office actually speak like that to potential clients. Seriously, if you're trying to sell your business based on your companies technical advantage, learn what the damn technology is.
Google-News'ing for Firefox (I wanted to see what the actual FF related story was) turned up this Farsarian fairy nugget:
Quote:
A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.
[...]
The service pack for the .NET Framework, like other updates, was pushed out to users through the Windows Update Web site. A number of readers had never heard of this platform before Windows Update started offering the service pack for it, and many of you wanted to know whether it was okay to go ahead and install this thing.
[...]
I'm here to report a small side effect from installing this service pack that I was not aware of until just a few days ago: Apparently, the .NET update automatically installs its own Firefox add-on that is difficult -- if not dangerous -- to remove, once installed.
Annoyances.org, which lists various aspects of Windows that are, well, annoying, says "this update adds to Firefox one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities present in all versions of Internet Explorer: the ability for Web sites to easily and quietly install software on your PC." I'm not sure I'd put things in quite such dire terms, but I'm fairly confident that a decent number of Firefox for Windows users are rabidly anti-Internet Explorer, and would take umbrage at the very notion of Redmond monkeying with the browser in any way.
Big deal, you say? I can just uninstall the add-on via Firefox's handy Add-ons interface, right? Not so fast. The trouble is, Microsoft has disabled the "uninstall" button on the extension. What's more, Microsoft tells us that the only way to get rid of this thing is to modify the Windows registry, an exercise that -- if done imprecisely -- can cause Windows systems to fail to boot up.
[...]
The service pack for the .NET Framework, like other updates, was pushed out to users through the Windows Update Web site. A number of readers had never heard of this platform before Windows Update started offering the service pack for it, and many of you wanted to know whether it was okay to go ahead and install this thing.
[...]
I'm here to report a small side effect from installing this service pack that I was not aware of until just a few days ago: Apparently, the .NET update automatically installs its own Firefox add-on that is difficult -- if not dangerous -- to remove, once installed.
Annoyances.org, which lists various aspects of Windows that are, well, annoying, says "this update adds to Firefox one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities present in all versions of Internet Explorer: the ability for Web sites to easily and quietly install software on your PC." I'm not sure I'd put things in quite such dire terms, but I'm fairly confident that a decent number of Firefox for Windows users are rabidly anti-Internet Explorer, and would take umbrage at the very notion of Redmond monkeying with the browser in any way.
Big deal, you say? I can just uninstall the add-on via Firefox's handy Add-ons interface, right? Not so fast. The trouble is, Microsoft has disabled the "uninstall" button on the extension. What's more, Microsoft tells us that the only way to get rid of this thing is to modify the Windows registry, an exercise that -- if done imprecisely -- can cause Windows systems to fail to boot up.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Time to move on to Google Chrome, then.
catwho the Pest wrote:
Time to move on to Google Chrome, then.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cecc62dc-96a7-4657-af91-6383ba034eab
It updates it so you can rip it out.
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Olorinus the Ludicrous wrote:
The idea of old school is way more interesting than the reality
catwho the Pest wrote:
Time to move on to Google Chrome, then.
Quote:
It looks like the Microsoft dotnet addon also affects the Chrome browser.
Posted by: TwoCentsWrth | May 29, 2009 9:59 AM | Report abuse
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I use Chrome. But I don't allow auto-updates.
Alma wrote:
I lost my post
I use the Firefox search engine to Google stuffs.
"I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
I use Firefox to Google MSN to get to my webmail.
I Googled my Firefox just this morning.
My mother refers to Internet Explorer as 'The Internet'.
I like to tell her that I prefer the Firefox internet.
I like to tell her that I prefer the Firefox internet.
"I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
Yodabunny wrote:
It's sickening how many people in my office actually speak like that to potential clients. Seriously, if you're trying to sell your business based on your companies technical advantage, learn what the damn technology is.
My boss is the king of this. It's even worse when he forces me to explain to him something I know he won't understand, only so he can butcher my words and turn around and try to act smart with the client.
Iamadam the Shady wrote:
I like to tell her that I prefer the Firefox internet.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Jophiel wrote:
Iamadam the Shady wrote:
I like to tell her that I prefer the Firefox internet.
And you call her lap the Firebox.
trickybeck wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
Iamadam the Shady wrote:
I like to tell her that I prefer the Firefox internet.
And you call her lap the Firebox.
Pawkeshup the Vile wrote:
Trying to find it from their site, but this is what appeared on their news channel, which is where the link (should) be leading you.
You're kidding, right? Cause the guys writing the little banner blurbs during news stories never make mistakes, include typos, or grammatical errors. It's pretty clear that the blurb was about Mozilla's browser Firefox overtaking browsers owned by Microsoft and Apple, but they've only got this tiny space to write that on, so you got that result.
I know it's funny to assume that Fox News is all run by Yokels who don't know about this new thing called the "internet", but you'll see pretty much the same sort of errors and mangled language on CNN or MSNBC. Heck. The labeling of Sen. Craig as a Democrat was much much funnier IMO...
King Nobby wrote:
More words please
My favorite was when Fox News made up a brand new Congressional office for Dennis Hastert following the 2006 elections, calling him "Minority Speaker" 
That wasn't accidentally mangled language, that was Fox unable to cope with the new reality.
That wasn't accidentally mangled language, that was Fox unable to cope with the new reality.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
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