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Macworld: Apple gets best spot in EU browser ballot screen, Mozilla says
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence: Apple's Safari tops Microsoft's European ballot...Firefox furious
AppleInsider: Apple's Safari gets prime placement in Windows browser ballot
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Коммунизм на марше — http://tinyurl.com/yg5nphh — смешное плакание за справедливость выбора браузера в Windows 7 от мозилловского дизайнера. 10/26/2009 |
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pff, waar kan je je druk om maken: Windows 7 zou oneerlijk zijn in het aanbieden van internet browsers http://tinyurl.com/yg5nphh 10/20/2009 |
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Always have a name at the beginning of the alphabet, or you will not be chosen http://bit.ly/2YbyLa Now what does this say about 'Zune'...? 10/20/2009 |
Apple gets best spot in EU browser ballot screen, Mozilla says
Macworld —
... . Mozilla again slammed the browser “ballot screen” proposal that Microsoft’s made to European antitrust regulators, saying that the voting will be skewed Apple’s way because its Safari browser will be the first choice on the list. In a long blog post Thursday , Jenny Boriss, a Firefox user experience designer, argued that Microsoft’s ...
Apple's Safari tops Microsoft's European ballot...Firefox furious
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Under the proposals, browsers will be listed alphabetically by company name, putting Apple’s Safari (for Windows) at the top of the list. This has given Firefox developer, Mozilla, what we in the UK colloquially express as “the hump”, with FF user experience designer, Jenny Boriss, complaining that inclusion of Safari at the top of the list will give Apple an unfair market advantage. ...
Apple's Safari gets prime placement in Windows browser ballot
AppleInsider —
... Published: 11:20 AM EST Microsoft's Windows browser ballot in Europe presents its options in alphabetical order, putting Apple's Safari as the first choice for users to install. The design caught the ire of Jenny Boriss, a Firefox designer, who believes that the layout gives an unfair advantage to Safari over competing browsers. Her personal comments were not made on behalf of the Mozilla Foundation. "Windows users presented with the current design will tend to make only two choices: IE because they are familiar with it, or Safari because it is the first item," she said. ...
Mozilla Whines About Apple Being First in Microsoft's Web Browser Ballot Screen [Browser Wars]
Gizmodo —
... In other words, Microsoft and the EU should help Firefox to become the new monopolistic browser, no matter what. Jenny, please: Stop. Saying. Words. [Boriss' Blog via ...
Mozilla Firefox whines as Apple Safari gets top spot on Microsoft Windows’ EU browser ballot screen
MacDailyNews —
... other browsers at 2.6%. Frankly, Safari is a good browser for Apple computers, but Apple hasn’t put much effort to make it competitive on Windows. It’s just not their priority. So, by listing Safari first, the ballot is presenting as the recommended item the browser that is least likely to be the one the user wants. This leads to users having a bad experience using the web, and ultimately hurts the user and the market." Boriss continues whining like a widdle baby is her full rant here . MacDailyNews Take: Jenny's fear is palpable. Safari is the only web browser that ...
Firefox designer slams ‘pick your browser’ option in Windows 7
APC —
... bare OS image and then allow users to select which browser (or browsers) to install from a simple menu called a ‘browser ballot’. Microsoft’s proposed system ranks the five leading browsers according to alphabetic order of the vendor or parent company: so Apple’s Safari gets pole position followed by Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, Mozilla’s Firefox and, err, Opera’s Opera. Sounds fair? Not fair enough, according to Firefox designer Jenny Boriss. Sounding off on her blog – with the caveat that this is her personal opinion “and doesn’t reflect Mozilla’s ...
