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Red Squirrel

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Hate or like the decision, but it's their company, and they can run it how they like. I personally am not a huge fan of that move either though. But if I hated it bad enough then I would just not use them.

One thing I do hate too is that you are pretty much forced to have a google account now, even for searching. By default they have all sorts of really annoying "features" that you have to turn off, and the only way to make it save properly (on all PCs you use) is to have a Google account. Who's idea was it to do that stupid instant search crap? I'm not even done typing, I don't want the page to keep changing on me until I'm done.

The MS lawsuit I never understood. As much as I hate IE like the next guy, why was it illegal for MS to package IE with Windows "forcing" users to use it? And what ever came from that lawsuit anyway, MS still does it. While I do think MS should just give up on IE and package it with Firefox or something, it's simply not in their interest and it wont happen. I don't see why the law should force them to do it.