Comments on: Google starts urging Firefox users to change their Search Engine

By: Vinit Pratap

Vinit Pratap — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 21:40:00 +0000

Firefox + bing = scroogle. 😛

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 16:29:00 +0000

In reply to jensenjs. Thanks; must just be some glitch when using VPN, as Google indeed works fine on my FF 34/35...could even be a Google glitch or reluctance to VPN. Thanks again, cheers!

By: jensenjs

jensenjs — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:45:00 +0000

In reply to Dan.

No!
FF does not favouring Yahoo, Google works/worked fine at any version of FF I have used, and also as a preferred search engine.
But I do not use Google as much as before, it has became to overloaded with commercial links and fake results based on manipulated metatags.

I do still use Google though, but just not as much as before.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:36:00 +0000

IN FF 34 and now FF35, I get the occasional blue Google banner asking if I’d like to “speed up” searching with a new Google engine, but when i click “sure”, Google always says my version of Firefox doesn’t support such an upgrade. When in a major VPN, FF35 won’t let me connect to Google’s servers on as its note says “user unable to override” FF ‘problem’ matching pin-key issues; only ones that work in VPN for me with FF35 are DuckDuckGo, StartPage. So maybe FF is not only favoring Yahoo but disadvantaging Google?

By: lifeartist

lifeartist — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 23:38:00 +0000

Haven’t been with Google for sometime switched first to Start Page then to DuckDuckGo.

By: MacQ

MacQ — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 18:30:00 +0000

Switched to DuckDuckGo.