In what was apparently poor communication between Yahoo!'s U.S. and Australian offices, the company promised more than it is willing to deliver when it assured users that all future Yahoo! products would be tested against Firefox as well as IE. In a partial rescinding of that pledge, Yahoo! still avows interest in Firefox, but cannot promise compatibility in all departments. This is understandable. Firefox is tearing up the world now, but is still a new phenomenon. Imagine if Yahoo! had promised future compatibility with the Opera browser back in the late 1990s when it was making waves. Long-term promises of this sort are risky; Yahoo! should stick to individual product announcements.
Yahoo! Backpedals on Firefox Promise
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(Page 1)2. Well the Firefox support really is getting to be there. I can't belive MSN is also starting to get into it as well (http://www.start.com/1/ & http://www.start.com/2/).
The most disrtubing lack of compatibility in my daily used might have to do wth the Video Plus Player which lacks control thru Firefox.Other than that I open Launchcast Plus in the Messenger
1. This is highly disappointing, but I can only hope that the Australian division continues anyway as the only part of the Yahoo! empire I use :-)
Posted at 5:45AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Duncan