Babylon is misbehaving
Posted July 8, 2009 – 11:11 pm in: Interaction Design
For quite a while, I was using a Babylon plugin for Firefox which enabled me to mark text and get instant translation. Recently, the plugin forced me to update and after the update was completed I noticed that my browser default search and homepage was changed to Babylon. I thought that this was a dirty trick and changed my settings back. Few seconds later, a Babylon pop-up appeared telling me that if I want to use the product for free I need to make Babylon my default search provider and home-page…
Changing my browser setting without asking? good bye Babylon, I have uninstalled the plugin. Quick search and I got IM translator for free. Instead of messing up with the browser setting, it shows ads when the translation window is open which is acceptable.
Tags: babylon, firefox, translator