Firefox ends relationship with Google, new partner is Yahoo

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"Since 2004, Google has been paying Mozilla a ton of money each year—estimated at around $100 million—for the privilege of being the default search engine used in the Firefox browser. This contribution represented the lion's share of Mozilla's income, something in the ballpark of 85 percent.

That deal, last renewed for a three-year period in 2011, has come to an end, and this time it won't be renewed."

Continue reading: http://arstechnica.com/information-...lationship-firefox-will-now-default-to-yahoo/
 

darko999

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I didn't care when google became the default search engine after installing FF. But adding the download protection integrated, sending information about .exe files being downloaded to google, and plus blocking legit files as malware was like using chrome with gecko engine.
 

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"Since 2004, Google has been paying Mozilla a ton of money each year—estimated at around $100 million—for the privilege of being the default search engine used in the Firefox browser. This contribution represented the lion's share of Mozilla's income, something in the ballpark of 85 percent.

That deal, last renewed for a three-year period in 2011, has come to an end, and this time it won't be renewed."

Continue reading: http://arstechnica.com/information-...lationship-firefox-will-now-default-to-yahoo/
Thanks for the info, Personally I use another search engine for use in Chrome. (Duck Duck Go) :)
 

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Its just a strategic move to increase market shares of a default search engine and surely Google still be the choice of major users around the world.

Still a long way for Yahoo to beat Google in all matters.
 

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Cyberfox will not! and Cyberfox is not a clone ;) and I am sure Palemoon will not follow them too.
Palemoon developed some compatibility problem with firefox addons like ad block plus. I will use it anyway as long as Palemoon provides alternative addons.
 
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altanz

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Palemoon uses ESR build of Mozilla. On the other hand, Cyberfox always follows latest build of Firefox.
Firefox released and then Cyberfox released in 1 or 2 days.

Do you mean that palemoon is not secure?
 

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Pale Moon is safer than FF IMO. It also runs stable on my machine, I guess FF never liked my system =(.
 
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