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martyb
on Saturday November 22 2014, @05:46AM
from the should-name-a-search-engine:-"Sir Ch" dept.
from the should-name-a-search-engine:-"Sir Ch" dept.
Mozilla announced a change to their strategy for Firefox search partnerships. They are ending the practice of having a single global default search provider. Instead, the default search provider would be determined by location in the following ways:
- United States: Yahoo (new five year deal), who would support the Do Not Track setting in Firefox
- Russia: Yandex
- China: Baidu
Google - together with Bing, DuckDuckGo, and other (depending on location) will continue to be a pre-installed search option. While not a default search provider, Google is not fully out - they will continue to power the Safe Browsing and Geolocation features of Firefox.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @08:06AM
If you read the announcement Mozilla's goal is explicitly to foster competition, they want to reduce the google monoculture.
You can take that at face value, fully consistent with Mozilla's mission statement.
Or you can decide that it is a conspiracy by google to create the appearance of competition.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @01:58PM
Mozilla caused the current Google monoculture by shitting all over every Firefox user time and time and time again.
Mozilla hasn't fixed Firefox's poor performance, years after users asked for it to be fixed. Mozilla hasn't fixed Firefox's excessive memory usage, years after users asked for it to be fixed. Mozilla broke all of our extensions for a number of releases after Firefox 4. Mozilla pushed one dumbass UI change after another on us. And because Mozilla never fixed the performance and memory usage problems affecting Firefox, the mobile version of it for Android has turned out to be total shit.
Users aren't dumb. They aren't going to put up with Mozilla's shit in their mouths! So off to Google Chrome they went, where the performance isn't total shit, where the memory usage is reasonable, where extensions weren't broken every release, and where the UI is predictably shitty, and where the mobile version is at least usable.
If Mozilla was dumb enough to create this Google monoculture in the first place, how they hell are they supposed to be smart enough to fix it?
(Score: 2) by wantkitteh on Saturday November 22 2014, @04:10PM
I've been using Firefox since v2 and I haven't noticed any performance issues, experienced no issues with heavy memory use, never had any extensions break on me, haven't had any issues with the UI changes and love the Android version. Don't blame Mozilla because Google outmaneuvered them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 22 2014, @05:39PM
> Mozilla caused the current Google monoculture by shitting all over every Firefox user time and time and time again.
Unless there is some connection between your rant and google's search engine that only you are aware of, you seem to have a lose grip on sanity.