Mozilla signs five-year deal with Yahoo; Firefox will use Yahoo as default search engine
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[QUOTE]Today, Yahoo and Mozilla announced a five-year partnership that would make Yahoo the default US search engine for Mozilla's Firefox browser on mobile and desktop. In December, Yahoo will roll out an enhanced new search function to Firefox users, and will also support Do Not Track functions in Firefox as a result of the partnership. The agreement also sets the stage for future product integrations, but so far the companies are keeping quiet on what those might be. Firefox has lost market share in recent years but is still used by roughly 17 percent of webgoers. According to Mozilla CEO Chris Beard, Firefox users search the web more than 100 billion times each year, suggesting a major windfall for Yahoo as a result of the deal.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/19/7250513/firefox-signs-yahoo-as-default-search-engine-[/url]
Remember, you can always change your default search engine.
Doesn't Yahoo just use the old Google search engine? Or did I mix that up with something?
EDIT: It was Bing. Yahoo Search is provided by Bing.
Because they werent having trouble enough to stay relevant whilst chrome is around
[QUOTE=Grimhound;46529297]Doesn't Yahoo just use the old Google search engine? Or did I mix that up with something?[/QUOTE]
They use Bing, but IIRC the deal expires in early 2015.
Yahoo is used only by old people and an oddly large number of people in japan
but mainly old people
If this is at all annoying or changes my web browsing experience, this might be the final straw that'll get me to switch to Chrome after being a staunch Firefox user for the past 12 years.
[QUOTE=ratman_122;46529310]If this is at all annoying or changes my web browsing experience, this might be the final straw that'll get me to switch to Chrome after being a staunch Firefox user for the past 12 years.[/QUOTE]
It should be just as easy to switch back to Google as it is to currently switch to Yahoo (or Bing etc). If its not I bet you someone will fork firefox to make it possible.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46529299]Because they werent having trouble enough to stay relevant whilst chrome is around[/QUOTE]
google has more advertising power than firefox (a non profit org)??? im blown away
[editline]19th November 2014[/editline]
firefox on lots of linux installs defaults to yahoo and ddg already
Good thing you can just change switch the search engine in 2 clicks.
Holy shit guys, overreact much? You can still change the default search engine back to google.
Yahoo sponsors quite a few GNU software developers, Linux Mint comes to mind.
Google doesn't.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;46529393]Good thing you can just change switch the search engine in 2 clicks.[/QUOTE]
I realize this but the update hasn't dropped yet and we don't know what all they're going to do with it. I don't actually believe they're going to fuck anything up but I'm still allowed to be apprehensive!
I don't know why people are so opposed to other search engines than Google, really.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46529299]Because they werent having trouble enough to stay relevant whilst chrome is around[/QUOTE]
If you give two shits about your privacy, then you shouldn't be using chrome because it reports literally everything you do back to google. Also, chrome is still fuckin horrendous with memory management. BTW, firefox caught up and passed chrome in pretty much all benchmarks last year.
[QUOTE=aydin690;46529420]If you give two shits about your privacy, then you shouldn't be using chrome because it reports literally everything you do back to google.[/QUOTE]
If you sign in to your Google account, yes. How else is it going to sync?
It's going to be even tougher for the competition to get people to pull away from Chrome than how hard it was from IE if we get to the point of another huge browser war. And even before that, Netscape too. You never know, Opera or some other browser that nobody has ever heard of could boom overnight.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46529299]Because they werent having trouble enough to stay relevant whilst chrome is around[/QUOTE]
I nicknamed Chrome the RAMEater because that's all it ever did for me atleast.
Firefox seems to stay quite low on it's usage, yeah I guess if you have lots of ram it doesn't matter but really, chrome can eat a lot of it.
[QUOTE=aydin690;46529420]If you give two shits about your privacy, then you shouldn't be using chrome because it reports literally everything you do back to google. Also, chrome is still fuckin horrendous with memory management. BTW, firefox caught up and passed chrome in pretty much all benchmarks last year.[/QUOTE]
people don't use chrome to jerk about performance or privacy, they use it because it installs in less than a minute and sets up and integrates perfectly within everything in google's software ecosystem automatically
[QUOTE=Thomo_UK;46529447]I nicknamed Chrome the RAMEater because that's all it ever did for me atleast.
Firefox seems to stay quite low on it's usage, yeah I guess if you have lots of ram it doesn't matter but really, chrome can eat a lot of it.[/QUOTE]
Web browsers use a lot of memory because web pages tend to have a lot of assets in form of images, video and sound. This increases memory usage.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;46529439]If you sign in to your Google account, yes. How else is it going to sync?[/QUOTE]
It reports your browsing history and usage practices back to google anonymously even when you're not logged in. There are some projects that get rid of chrome's tracking, for example [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRWare_Iron"]SRWare Iron[/URL].
This is like the McAfee download check-box for every time you try to download adobe flash player, annoying but not the end of the world.
[QUOTE=Fatfatfatty;46529460]Web browsers use a lot of memory because web pages tend to have a lot of assets in form of images, video and sound. This increases memory usage.[/QUOTE]
Chrome uses 2-3x more memory than any other modern browser.
[QUOTE=aydin690;46529485]Chrome uses 2-3x more memory than any other modern browser.[/QUOTE]
I popped open Chrome's built-in task manager (shift+escape). Look at this shit:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/3kLzuA4.png[/t]
Firefox can easily do this with half of the RAM usage, and usage will be consistent instead of jumpy like Chrome. Though the only tradeoff is that it doesn't have task isolation (which is why many came to Chrome in the first place). Note that the GPU Process entry is mostly (if not all of it) offloaded onto the GDDR5 of your discrete card, from my understanding of attempting a kill on it.
task isolation isn't as beneficial as you think it is
[QUOTE=.Lain;46529522]task isolation isn't as beneficial as you think it is[/QUOTE]
It's much more relieving if just a single tab crashes or a small subset does in some instances, as it doesn't bring down literally the entire browser with it in Chrome and Chromium. You'd need to be pushing it pretty hard with RAM alone to get Chrome to die all at once, either through Windows bitching about low RAM available (in which case it'll sometimes kill a game I'm playing and/or all of Chrome), or some other crazy method.
I sure as hell would be pissed if I lost work that I had going on in another tab because something in one tab brought the whole browser down, as is the case with Firefox today still, for sure. Then again, there's the Lazarus extension, but is that even available on Firefox?
-snip fulla holes-
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;46529552]Thank goodness I'm using a hideously outdated version of Firefox (28.0) so I don't have to deal with this mess.[/QUOTE]
1) you're running an outdated version which means you are even more likely to get viruses and other problems
2) you can easily switch the default back to Google
3) you will be dealing with a bigger mess if you don't update your shit
[QUOTE=FunnyStarRunner;46529552]Thank goodness I'm using a hideously outdated version of Firefox (28.0) so I don't have to deal with this mess.[/QUOTE]
If you're using 28 you may as well just switch to pale moon
[QUOTE=garychencool;46529609]1) you're running an outdated version which means you are even more likely to get viruses and other problems
2) you can easily switch the default back to Google
3) you will be dealing with a bigger mess if you don't update your shit[/QUOTE]
At least he should be on the ESR channel, which guarantees security fixes, but doesn't add any new cosmetic features from future Firefox versions until the next large ESR release.
[QUOTE=garychencool;46529609]1) you're running an outdated version which means you are even more likely to get viruses and other problems
2) you can easily switch the default back to Google
3) you will be dealing with a bigger mess if you don't update your shit[/QUOTE]
The only reason I'm sticking with 28 is every version after that uses a minimalistic and infuriating design that pissed me off within several minutes of using it.
Plus all these stupid decisions Mozilla is making with every new version turns me off from using them.
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