Did Google Target Mozilla Through a Paid Security Report?

No. Mozilla's target auditory is different from Chrome's. Keep enjoying your retarded streamlined interface, Chrome users... not saying it's a bad browser, but I loathe that interface; FF gets things done while in Chrome I keep cursing around looking under the dropdown menu for the item I need instead of using the traditional File/Edit/Tools/etc. which everybody is trying to rip away from us nowadays; hell, even Win7 tried!

didnt even know anyone still used that bar.. its been welll ages since i have used anything but the url bar in a browser.

SpyEasyChrome is the safest browsers, we people paid by Google tell you that so there's no reason not to believe us.
Okay, np, np

Not really a surprise for me. If embedding its browser in pretty much every software out there and flooding Google search results wasn't enough. I think Chrome is an adware and Google's way of distributing its browser is far, FAR worse than that of Microsoft.

That's why I stick with Firefox. Mozilla does not try to force FF down our throats, and the browser is really good. I definitely don't want adware in my computer, thats why Chrome will stay out of my hard drive.

Isnt Google's mantra "dont be evil" ? It seems that they might be failing at that.

I think the browser is less to blame than the user.

Adblock + noscript means I'm pretty set.

Still I am going off firefox a bit with the release schedule, numbering and the direction of the UI.

Some ui bits look handy, however hiding the menus is pretty dumb. Browsers should have the ability to be modified (EASILY) by the user to create their own UI.
Instead of having everything but the url bar hidden. The type of users who only use that are probably going on farmville.

long live opera

In my experience as a computer tech, I have noticed a predominance of Mozilla users coming in for virus issues--particularly of the fake antivirus variety. But is that because of any inherent flaw in Firefox, or is it because Firefox's "trendy" status attracts more casual (and less security-savvy) users? Safer browsing is always the best protection...

Don't say anything bad about Firefox. The members don't like it.

Google's chrome is new and unlike Firefox hasn't been around long enough to call on a lot of hackers. Give hackers a little time chrome and your day is coming. This said wasn't Google's email hack huge.

"Don't be evil... unless it's really really convenient."

Personally I don't mind the change in the user interface of any program. They have always been changing and 'updating' based on the style and preference of the times. If you really know what you are doing you aren't navigating much with that interface anyways, you are using shortcuts. Long story short I don't know how anyone can complain that the file menu is no longer there when it is a simple Alt-F away.

I don't believe Google is doing something "evil" with these paid studies; at the same time, I do not take those studies seriously, because I already know they're biased, and therefore, useless.

I think its amazing that people still trust google after some of the crap they've pulled in the past 2 years. They simply cannot be trusted.
Ask most people what google is and they'll tell you that its a search engine.
This is completely wrong.
Google is first and foremost an advertising company, that just happens to have an okay search product which they use to collect as much personal information about their users as possible to be used in targeting their ads.
When you get your head around that little fact its hard to trust anything they do any more.

Google has what plants need. It has electrolytes.

That's exactly why I hate tablets, Apple, "simplifying" and other bull$h!t - I don't want to end up like humans did in that movie!

I'm an avid android user and usually love google, but this makes me mad at them!
There's no need for them to do this either, since the browser already is as big as firefox (about 25% each).
Also don't like the way they bundle the browser when, for example, downloading google earth.

i tried using google-chrome a while back.. at the time, i didn't see any settings for tightening up the browser's security.. now, it has settings for tightening up the security..

one stupid thing, chrome has a setting for blocking third-party cookies, but it won't allow "exceptions", if needed.. that is stupid.. i know of one website where you have to use a "third-party cookie" in order to be able to login..

as far as "disabling firefox's security features", i would say that it doesn't have any, except for an option to disable javascript, globally, with no "exceptions", which is stupid.. without the "noscript" addon, which allows for tightening up firefox's security, firefox would be garbage, in my book..

the article in question brought out some interesting things, for me...

I suspect that Google's timing of this tells the real story. They currently are in negotiation with Mozilla over the renewal of their default search engine contract which cost them an estimated $100M last year. The lower the Mozilla users, the less they will be willing to pay. Additionally, Mozilla's decision to allow a Bing-enabled version of Firefox probably didn't sit too well with them either.

Hmmm......Do you think Google made a mistake? Looks to me like Google has practically issued a challenge to everyone. I wonder who won't be able to resist.

Browsing is like Sex. to be safe, always use protection.