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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: UncleUB on March 06, 2014, 04:45:51 PM

Title: DELL Charges £16 to install FIREFOX on to their PC's
Post by: UncleUB on March 06, 2014, 04:45:51 PM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03/05/mozilla_probes_dell_over_firefox_installation_claims/

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The Mozilla Foundation has begun an investigation after tech juggernaut Dell appeared to be asking customers to pay more than £16 ($27) to install its free web browser Firefox on newly purchased Dell kit. 

 

I'm guessing that you can just d/load foc once you have bought your machine,just like any other browser...

Title: Re: DELL Charges £16 to install FIREFOX on to their PC's
Post by: kitz on March 06, 2014, 06:26:41 PM

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Firefox takes just over 10 minutes to install for anyone with even the most basic computing knowledge, meaning that Dell is charging around £100 an hour to load a computer with the free and open-source software.

Wow... as long as 10 mins?   Took me all of about 2 mins the other day  ::)

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I'm guessing that you can just d/load foc once you have bought your machine,just like any other browser...

Yes you can..   and once of the first things I usually do when setting up a PC for anyone - including my own.    sheesh..  Im just too cheap!