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Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 5, 2012

What’s The Story?

I’ve been using Google Chrome for Linux since it was first made available. I use Gmail, Google Docs (now Drive), Google Plus, Google Adsense, Google Analytics, Google Music, and many more. I am the original owner of an original CR-48 Chromebook, having received mine way back in Dec. 2010. I promote Google services at work and have worked hard to point my business??? compass towards their entire suite of offerings. I use a Samsung Nexus S with an official build of Android 4.04 and I’m only interested in official devices moving forward.

At the same time, I have been gently treading a fine line between complete faith and trust in Google and fear of the Orwellian future they are capable of realizing for us all.
What did you find?

I recently switched from Kubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.04 for production. I had planned on doing so as soon as The Gimp 2.8 was released. Well, it’s here and I’m happy. After freshly installing 12.04 4 days ago, I decided that I would try to use Firefox for a change and see what it has to offer. I haven’t used it actively since the early 3.x era and I was sure that I???d find something to like about it. Things have been working out great when I’m accessing a non-Google page. Very early on, I started seeing a lot of this???

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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