Talk:Firefox
Wikia - creating communities
Its cool to see that google is doing this, and that wikicities is using it. I'm normally not happy to see sites I visit get more ads, but having more firefox users on the internet benefits everyone. Google toolbar is also useful, I recently replaced my yahoo toolbar with the google one. Unlike the yahoo toolbar, which was mostly just links, google toolbar adds some nice features like spell check. --Paulgb 02:44, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- It would also be nice to see a Paypal account or an address to mail checks. I'd rather not download spyware to give Wikicities a measly dollar. Almafeta 13:16, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- Firefox nor the google bar contains spyware. Ryancb06 15:56, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- The google toolbar has an option to see pagerank on sites you visit, which requires the toolbar to send each site you visit to google. However, when you install the toolbar, it makes it very clear that it is doing this and if I remember correctly it is off by default. I can't be sure to trust it since I havn't sniffed every packet that the toolbar sends out, but I am sure someone has, and since the internet media loves news about google, I am sure we would have heard about it if it was spyware. Plus its an .xpi file, which I think is open source. Its hard to hide spyware in open source software. But I'm not sure about that one. --Paulgb 20:50, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- It asks yes or no to reporting this info but if you do report it is only used for purposes of page rank.--Ryancb06 06:51, 9 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- The google toolbar has an option to see pagerank on sites you visit, which requires the toolbar to send each site you visit to google. However, when you install the toolbar, it makes it very clear that it is doing this and if I remember correctly it is off by default. I can't be sure to trust it since I havn't sniffed every packet that the toolbar sends out, but I am sure someone has, and since the internet media loves news about google, I am sure we would have heard about it if it was spyware. Plus its an .xpi file, which I think is open source. Its hard to hide spyware in open source software. But I'm not sure about that one. --Paulgb 20:50, 8 Nov 2005 (UTC)
- Firefox nor the google bar contains spyware. Ryancb06 15:56, 7 Nov 2005 (UTC)
[edit] "very few valid downloads were made"
When the Firefox button was up, I actually tried to use it. However, I was already running Firefox (on Mac OS X) at the time, so in the end I only installed Google's toolbar on that computer.
Official Firefox builds are always for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux x86; on other platforms you must get Firefox from other sources (usually the platform vendor) and no one was paying Wikia for those.
Having users who already use Firefox, or who use a platform other than those three, might have contributed to the lack of valid downloads. --Kernigh 06:02, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
