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Is that still true? I thought Google stopped funding Mozilla recently. Edit: Just checked, they had a deal with Google until 2014 when they signed with yahoo i
by roryisok 9y ago
Is that still true? I thought Google stopped funding Mozilla recently.
Edit: Just checked, they had a deal with Google until 2014 when they signed with yahoo instead. As of 2017 they switched back to Google as the fault search engine but there's no info on Wikipedia at least about whether or not they get money this time around
- dingo_bat 9y agoOf course they get money. Otherwise why would they set google as default.
- 1ris 9y agoBecause its the only sensible search engine and setting it was default improves the user experience of firefox.
- isomorphic 9y agoAbsolutely. You can see Mozilla attribution in the Google URLs. (Unless you've modified your search engines--which Mozilla has made harder to modify.)
- evfanknitram 9y agoBecause they know what their users wants?
- dingo_bat 9y agoMost people switching to Firefox are doing it because they want choice. I know that was my motivation. It's not an upgrade over chrome in any other metric.
- IAmLiterallyAB 9y agoBecause 99% of the population use Google so they make their browser do what the customer expects. Not everything is a conspiracy.