Is Google Promoting Firefox Today?

Hey,

I just tried it and got the normal google page.

no firefox mentioned

as of 2:45PM EST, mine no longer showed the Firefox promo, but yeah I did see it on there earlier and had the same weird eyebrow raising stare....

i got it on the homepage it seems too be rolling out too everyone slowly

I'm not getting the Firefox promotion. If your agenda is to stir things up with false news, then thanks for wasting everyone's time.

I visited Google twice this morning with IE (only because I have to sometimes) and saw the Firefox promo image both times.

I had it on my homepage yesterday evening.

I got the image yesterday, but I don't get it today.

I had the Firefox promo until about 15 minutes ago.

I use Google desktop and so the Google homepage has NO promotion of firefox. I am also a IE 7 beta user. This IE comes with a Google bar installed. Very happy with the beta.

I actually saw this last night around 11PM EDT using IE (IE is security mandadted by university IT). Today at the office at 3 PM EDT, it is not showing up.

I actually saw this last night around 11PM EDT using IE (IE is security mandadted by my university IT). Today at the office at 3 PM EDT, it is not showing up.

Hi, Anonymous again. Sorry for being such an anal-retentive super-dweeb and I apologize profusely for saying you have an 'agenda' and that your news was false. I just saw the image and realized what an ass I made out of myself.

I use explorer, and the Firefox promo was there this morning at about 7 or 8 am, but I just checked again at almost 3 pm, and the Firefox plug was no longer there.

No mention of Firefox on Google's home page using IE of FF. However, on the Toolbar page, using IE a link at the bottom informs "FireFox version now available." There is no corresponding link to IE version when using FF to access Toolbar page.

had it in the morning (caught my eye too)... not there anymore.

I saw the Firefox ad this morning, but do not see it now.

I earlier saw Bill Gates streaking across my screen with painted across his scrawny chest?...is he promoting too??

Great marketing scheme, I wonder how scaling out the ad would work.

I'm in Iowa and I did see the spread firefox message today. I usually use firefox and so I don't know how long it was up there.

I was getting it earlier this morning, but I am not anymore.

nope i'm not getting the firefox ad

I got "Google Home" void of advertising, however this article came up in my new google sidebar news section. Don't know if the Google people pick those articles or not.....

I also saw Bill streaking across my screen, but didn't think anything of it.....

Could have swornd ive seen the message before, but its not there now.

I got it on my home PC where there is Firefox already installed. Didnt get on work PC. Firefox is installed here also.

3:30-ish....no Firefox ad. Obviously must have removed it, for some reason.

I believe they just took off the firefox ad from the homepage. I saw it earlier this morning. but now, i dont see it anymore.

Just the normal google search page for me.

I tried it yesterday, and got the ad. I went again today after reading this, and it was gone. I suspect they just pulled it down.

(I normally use firefox, but I had to see what it was all about)

I saw it earlier today but not now

I haven't seen it yet, accept for the shot that's burnt on my brains.

I did not see it with IE6 on a pc without firefox installed but with the google desktop and the google browser tool bar installed.

HOWEVER, when trying with another PC with IE7 and Firefox installed I've got something else: a box in the upper right corner that reads "Make Google your search engine in Internet Explorer" with a button.

So, obviously Google is checking what browser is installed but also if you can access their search engine. It's more than promoting Firefox, it's promoting their search engine against MSN.

They should promote Opera instead.

Don't see it now.
But if you look on the "About Google" page you will see an ad referring you to Download FF with the Google Toolbar.

I saw it yesterday afternoon but not today anymore, no.

All these firefox noobs need to go to opera.com and download a real browser.

No thanks. Opera takes longer than Firefox to start up on Linux and doesn't have all of the extensions that I love so very much in Firefox. Opera's a very good browser (especially when we're comparing browsers with IE), but there are plenty of real reasons that Firefox has achieved more popularity than Opera even among techies. To each his own, as long as his own isn't Internet Explorer, which uniquely makes my job as a web developer a pain in the butt. :P

Didn't get it on mine. What I am thinking is maybe it is shown to people using IE that DON'T currently have Firefox? So maybe Google could use that as a ploy to use Firefox? "Hey you have IE, so why not go get firefox and get the toolbar at the same time!"

Didn't come up on mine either, could be IE 7 beta 2 doesn't bring it up (that's what I'm using)...and I've gotten so I like it a LOT better than Firefox.

I saw it yesterday on my school computers... They're running IE6. I've harvested such a hate for internet explorer from school. When I checked today however (exact same computer) it was gone.

Also this computer has no reference of any version of firefox being on the computer.

I haven't seen it yet--but I'm in Canada. I'd like to see it for myself, however. :)

Google sucks. I have NO idea why it's so popular. I regularly get better, and less sponsor laden results using Yahoo. Plus, the Google page is BORRRING.

Sometimes that message is there and sometimes its not and yes I do use firefox and ie.Sometimes there are other messages there for Google products. It just so happens that things from Google Labs gets put there sometimes. One of the things in Google Labs is the Google toolbar for firefox. Perhaps you have never visited the Google Lab before ?
You should check it out sometime.

It was there yesterday, I saw it sevearl times, not there anymoe!

Maybe Eric and Bill had a fight and Eric was like "oh yeah, well what if I do this." and Bill was like "oh crap man I'm sorry." and Eric was like "it's cool man I'll take it down, but don't talk that way about my mother again."

Bad combination. FireFox and Google toolbar are the worst things running together. It keeps your CPU running very high with a lot of memory consumed. The only way out of that is to remove Google toolbar from FireFox.

Though I saw it yesterday while using the IE7 beta, I think it's gone now. I'm glad, it looked extremely out of place on the home page.

Not that I'm against open source proselytizing or anything.

I saw it yesterday evening on IE 7.

Ya most likely it was just the labs posting about one of their toys. I think the Firefox w/ Google toolbar preinstalled is relatively new.

And most likely it was targeting anyone without Firefox, not just IE. I mean why ask someone who is already using Firefox to download what they are already using.

While it is definite support for Firefox, as the article mentioned. Google has its own reasons for doing this.

I got it all day yesterday but not today

If you go to Pack.Google.com they have Firefox listed as one of their essential programs to download.

Hey,

I just tried it and got the normal google page
But anyways I used firefox at home with google toolsbar....no because the promo

yes, I just checked it and saw the promotion for firefox

yes, google homepage is currently showing the firefox. I'm on IE6.

April 29, around 2:00C -
I am seeing it, but the image below the text is more compact then what you show above...

Looks like it's back up.

i use firefox, and it wasnt there
but i checked it out on IE and it was there!

I was right, check out my reply above. I checked the site on my friends computer which didn't have firefox, and his IE didn't have the Goolge toolbar, and thats what I got.

So it seems as if, if you have IE but it does NOT have the Google Toolbar, you will see the advertisement. However, if you already have Firefox (w/ or w/o the Google toolbar) or IE that already has the Google toolbar...you wil not see the ad.

By accident opened IE and it went to the the google page. Saw the ad for this so I was curious and so I googled "is google promoting firefox" and here I am.

Regardless, very interesting that some people are seeing it and others arent...

In a way its good that Firefox gets more exposure, however I dont like the tactics google is using...sullying the good google name.

Saw it this morning - 5/1/06
Gone this afternoon

No, I don't see it.

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I have no trouble using IE, so i just use it. No reason for me to switch to firefox, that ads makes no sense to me. god bless.

yes it is on my google page

It has been on my google homepage the past several days but just checked and it is not there today.

i've been using firefox probably since January 06 or maybe before (can't remember) and have had no problems. i just installed a tool that will allow IE to be opened in firefox - have only had two incidents where firefox would not open an IE (but that was no problem as i have IE also) - have not tried the new tool yet - will let you know if it does not work .

Personally, I like firefox.

This isn't the home page, but try this link and then you'll see how they push Firefox.

http://pack.google.com/

I've found leaders in other organizations also pushing Firefox for their members -- even those organizations that are government sponsored.

I used IE, did a yahoo search for google, selected the home page from the list and saw no plug for Firefox. Have been using firefox for the last 2 weeks and like it so far, switched because of security reasons trusted others have informed me about. Using firefox to post this comment on 5/5/06 7:30amcst

The google homepage is not all that is where google is promoting FirFox. In the Adsense advertising program, they have banner advertisements that promote firefox. So there are thousands and thoudsands of websites out there *made* to promote FireFox.

Ankit

I'm not getting the Firefox promotion and I lost my Firefox access. I like to use it with my IE so that I could keep it opened to the dictionary page while I did my emailed letters. Now I just get an error message. Can you tell me how to sign up to the free Firefox? I miss it.
Thanks,
Tom

I just type dowload and firfox in the Google search box. On my new computer, The first hit I got in april on my new computer was "Google firefox" where the Google search toolbar appears as an extra in Firefox. In fact ist was not my intention to use this one. I could hide the tollbars I did not like and use (since I want a full screen for the actual web pages.
I use at home and on my work desk both Firefox 1.0.5.4. At home I have sometimes difficulties. Some programs wont start like Terraexplorere, some fill in screens do sometimes not work. Here on my work place, I cannot remeber to have been forced to switch to IE, while somthing did not work.