Interesting move, though hardly uncommon. If anything it's good to see Microsoft uncoupling the search engine and the browser.<p>I'm glad that it's hosted by Mozilla, at least it ought to keep up to date with regard to the latest versions. The Yahoo Firefox is less fortunate- it's still stuck on v5:<p><a href="http://downloads.yahoo.com/firefox/" rel="nofollow">http://downloads.yahoo.com/firefox/</a>
Visiting the page on an Ubuntu box yields a more or less blank page with the message "Sorry, this download is not supported by your system."<p>What download? I guess I'll never know.
Hmm, I guess I never knew how much "search engine integration" was in Firefox. I just assumed Google was configured as the default search provider and that's it.<p>Honest question - can someone explain to me how is this different than just changing the search provider to Bing in my current copy of Firefox? (corp PC here - can't try it out on my own now).<p>I see other commenters saying this isn't available on Ubuntu - why not?