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[+Mephistopheles]

Offering a Firefox with MSN Custom Experience

We first added Bing as a search option in Firefox and later announced Firefox with Bing as a customized Firefox experience for Bing users.

Today, we are releasing Firefox with MSN, a customized version of Firefox for MSN users. Firefox with MSN sets Bing as the default search engine in the search box and AwesomeBar, saves msnNOW in a convenient Firefox App Tab and makes MSN.com your default home page.

It also gives your Firefox an MSN theme and provides quick access links to popular MSN channels so you can easily get real time updates for news, entertainment, sports and the things that matter most to you.

You can get Firefox with MSN here. Existing Firefox users can get the custom experience by downloading the Firefox with MSN add-on.

Firefox has nearly 20 customized versions distributed by partners around the world including AOL, Bing, Twitter, Yahoo! and Yandex.

Source: The Mozilla Blog

[+littleneutrino]

Not really willing to install it to see what the theme is however, is this a migration for Mozilla to distance themselves from google?

[+Mephistopheles]

Screenshot taken from computerbase.de:

[Rappy]

reminds me of this...

[Tyler R.]

reminds me of this...

What is this, I don't even....

[Rappy]

What is this, I don't even....

MSN Explorer, it used to be my default browser back in the day

[Shane Nokes]

MSN Explorer, it used to be my default browser back in the day

Same here...and I still like the interface...good old Mars...

[+ViperAFK]

why

[remixedcat]

yet msn is promoting ie.... lolz

[LOC]

Wow Rappy, that pic brings back memories

Reminds me of the first time I ran AOL 7 (I think it was 7.0) when they did their big UI redesign on AOL itself. MSN Explorer looked great (and I still think it looks good today to be honest) back then. AOL Desktop is more or less MSN Explorer now anyway

[0nyX]

reminds me of this...

omg... i used to really like that

[+Spirit Dave]

and I still think it looks good today to be honest

Stop thinking then. Because it's horrible. lol.

[Shane Nokes]

Stop thinking then. Because it's horrible. lol.

Design aesthetic is subjective not objective. I also happen to like that interface, and still appreciate the look.

[remixedcat]

did you all like wmp9's look too????

[Shane Nokes]

did you all like wmp9's look too????

I generally don't use WiMP for functionality reasons. Back in the day I used Winamp, then moved on to Zune.

I however continued to use MSN Explorer for many years on different types of connections because I pretty much never had to pay for it at any point in time and it made it very easy to track everything.

My messaging, e-mails, and things I cared about all in one spot. This is actually one of the very early precursors to what you see in Windows 8 believe it or not. They've been working towards what we have (well it's still not all there, but you'll see more of that later) for a very long time.