I just read this press release
SEATTLE, Jan. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Speakeasy, (www.speakeasy.net), the nation's largest independent broadband services provider, today announced it is the first provider to offer an official customized version of Mozilla Firefox 1.0, the award-winning web browser from the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla Firefox: Speakeasy Edition will empower users to browse faster, safer and more efficiently, and will be distributed as part of Speakeasy's self-install broadband service kits to its residential customers starting this month. It will also be available as a free download to anyone from www.speakeasy.net/firefox.This is very exciting news. Posted by asa at January 25, 2005 10:53 AM"We're thrilled to be the first broadband service provider to adopt Firefox, taking our customers' browsing experience to the next level. This special edition is just the first step in making browsing the web better for our customers. We plan to continually enhance the browser with features that will benefit Speakeasy's home, business and gaming subscribers," said Mike Apgar, chairman and founder of Speakeasy.
Interesting. What so "speakeasy" is it? Any screenshot?
Posted by: minghong on January 25, 2005 11:54 AMFor the curious... the Speakeasy extension adds a new menu item to the right of Help called, appropriately, MySpeakeasy. It contains the following:
Speakeasy
Speakeasy Login
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Tools and Resources ->
News ->
Gaming ->
Media ->
Comics ->
Shopping ->
Each of those last options has a sub-menu of different bookmarks, essentially... things like Network Status (Tools), Penny Arcade (Comics), Soma FM (Media), Fark (News) and ThinkGeek (Shopping).
Posted by: John T. Haller on January 25, 2005 12:12 PMIt appears that their customization is a plugin - cool (as long as it can be removed). I never was a fan of the browser customizations from ISP's that couldn't be removed.
Posted by: Jason F on January 25, 2005 12:17 PMJust noticed... it also changes the throbber to the Speakeasy logo. Flashing from in to out. A kinda nice touch, actually.
Posted by: John T. Haller on January 25, 2005 01:32 PM