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Are M$ pulling the piss out of Firefox?

  • 11-09-2009 6:42pm
    #1
    PogMoThoin
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    I'm running Windows 7 RTM and I've just got this popup. I've not had a Firefox crash and I'm running 3.5, the latest version :confused:

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    Are M$ pulling the piss? Have they purposely done this to annoy Firefox users till they return to IE?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    This came out the other day also,

    Microsoft tells US retailers Linux is rubbish
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/

    It will be interesting when google get in on the OS market.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,975 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    not having the same problem here


  • #4
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Overheal wrote: »
    not having the same problem here

    Which version of Windows 7 though? Beta or Release candidate?
    I'm running the RTM version, the one thats being released.


  • #5
    Galen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭Galen


    It's FUD again - Acronym for fear, uncertainty and doubt. It is a marketing term that is often used to cast a shadow over a competitor's product when your own is unable to compete. FUD is a technique used by larger companies who have a large market share. The FUD acronym was first freely defined by Gene Amdahl after he left IBM to found his own company, Amdahl Corp, with this statement: "FUD is the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that IBM sales people instill in the minds of potential customers who might be considering Amdahl products."

    http://www.dailyfinance.com/2009/09/09/microsoft-yep-we-teach-best-buy-to-trash-linux/

    It's all part of the game or in other words "all's fair in love and war"


  • #6
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    Are M$ pulling the piss? Have they purposely done this to annoy Firefox users till they return to IE?

    Firefox does throw out errors occasionally. This could be due to broken or malicious javascript on a site, flash/java failing or anything.

    It also depends on what is triggering the message, is it as a result of Firefox writing a message to an event log?

    If this popup is done in a non-annoying way, ie does not keep popping up every few seconds then I'd be in favour of it, as it might be possible to tell users that error messages that don't look like that are probably malware.
    Pity they don't provide a bit more info like a stack dump.

    And is the info incorrect? Are you running firefox 3.5.3?


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  • #7
    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    ressem wrote: »
    And is the info incorrect? Are you running firefox 3.5.3?

    Yes, I'm running 3.5.3. The only thing I can think of is that I did have a game crash which crashed windows and I think Firefox could have been opened in the background.


    The conspircy theorist in me thinks otherwise.....................note to self, stop inviting Jim Corr round for tea


  • #8
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,975 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    I wouldnt worry about it. Win7 RC still throws out the odd error. The one most frequently seen is the popup asking "did this software install correctly?"

    Theres still a few niggly ghosts in the machine. Probably just to do with windows 7 misreading output values from programs (ie. "Return 0;" if you know your programming)


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