+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 28, 2012 Subscriber² Share Posted November 28, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted November 28, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 28, 2012 Not really willing to install it to see what the theme is however, is this a migration for Mozilla to distance themselves from google? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted November 28, 2012 Author Subscriber² Share Posted November 28, 2012 Screenshot taken from computerbase.de: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted November 28, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 28, 2012 reminds me of this... f0rk_b0mb, +InsaneNutter, The King of GnG and 4 others 7 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f0rk_b0mb Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 reminds me of this... What is this, I don't even.... :s :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rappy Veteran Posted November 28, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 28, 2012 What is this, I don't even.... :s :rofl: MSN Explorer, it used to be my default browser back in the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Nokes Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 MSN Explorer, it used to be my default browser back in the day Same here...and I still like the interface...good old Mars... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 why Hum 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 yet msn is promoting ie.... lolz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOC Veteran Posted November 29, 2012 Veteran Share Posted November 29, 2012 Wow Rappy, that pic brings back memories :D 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 :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0nyX Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 reminds me of this... omg... i used to really like that :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OOOOOOOO Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 and I still think it looks good today to be honest Stop thinking then. Because it's horrible. lol. bigmehdi 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Nokes Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 did you all like wmp9's look too???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Nokes Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Wow. I kinda liked it then but I stuck to MSIE in that day.... I was running lower resolutions then and that UI wasted too much space (1024x768) so I used MSIE and preferred it. It looked nice at the time but it was too big for me. I used the following media players longer then one month: winamp, sonique, s2, SAP, winamp, k-jofol. wmp6.4,7,8,9,10,11,12, mediamonkey, jriver media jukebox and my fav is still media jukebox. even tho it hasnt had a version update in 2 years it's still awesome to me. I evne got a windows 8 metro looking skin for it so it blends in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Nokes Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 Wow. I kinda liked it then but I stuck to MSIE in that day.... I was running lower resolutions then and that UI wasted too much space (1024x768) so I used MSIE and preferred it. It looked nice at the time but it was too big for me. I used the following media players longer then one month: winamp, sonique, s2, SAP, winamp, k-jofol. wmp6.4,7,8,9,10,11,12, mediamonkey, jriver media jukebox and my fav is still media jukebox. even tho it hasnt had a version update in 2 years it's still awesome to me. I evne got a windows 8 metro looking skin for it so it blends in. Nice :) Yeah I usually had monitors that could handle 1280x1024 or higher. So for me the screen real estate was well used since it made it easier. I could just click a button and there was my e-mail. Another and I was viewing messages from friends and able to respond. Another and I could jump into a game on MSN Zone. It's one of those things that it's a case where it was very different and that put a lot of people off of using it...sort of like Zune and now Windows 8. It's different than what they are used to...so they get upset and don't want to use it. The few folks that I could get to actually sit down and give it a shot for more than a week ended up loving it. Good old Mars... *sighs* Quick piece of Trivia. The reason the UI was named Mars was that it was originally intended to be a companion piece to Neptune...the OS project that was ended and sort of 'merged' into bits of Win9x and became Millennium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I just used shortcut icons in IE and that was good enough for me... at that time tho we had a crappy monitor... lol.... but eventually got a better one and just used regular browsers even on it.... I really love server 2012 and windows 8 i really hated it back in DP but it's very nice now and I'm loving the new explorer ui, the new task manager, the new file transfer dialog, the proper multimonitor support, and most of all hyper-v is making a sexy desktop hypervisor... seriously.... no need for vmware workstation for that... I just now even got a linux vm within a linux vm on hyper-v and I never thought I would do that. LOL.... I alrleady almost got a windows server 2012 (host)>server 2012 (guest host or L1)>windows 7 (guest guest host or L2 SUCCESSFUL)>windows 7 (guest guest guest or L3 NOT WORKING SO FAR) going.... I'm very close to getting a vm within a vm within a vm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakers Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 MSN Explorer was a seriously underrated browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagjohn Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 So they don't want to build an x64 version of firefox but they find the time to do this? ROFL remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakers Posted November 30, 2012 Share Posted November 30, 2012 I've looked for just the theme but can't find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ObiWanToby Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 Ironic that Firefox has all these Microsoft customized versions. There is Firefox with Bing too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackkk1 Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 So they don't want to build an x64 version of firefox but they find the time to do this? ROFL They really know how to plan a product development, others could learn from them. Looking forward to altavista and yahoo firefox editions, i hope they'll integrate some banners as well, to improve my browsing experience. remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakers Posted December 1, 2012 Share Posted December 1, 2012 There's already a yahoo! version. That was the one they did first, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts