Earlier this week it was revealed that Google had paid again to be the default search engine in Firefox, the web browser which has about 25 percent of global market share.
Last year, Mozilla noted that Google practically kept the company in business in 2010, contributing 84 percent of their $123 million revenue.
The new deal, according to Kara Swisher, is apparently a lot more expensive ... [ read the full article ]
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Smells like a buy-out to me. I hated Chrome when it came out and I was a Firefox purist for over 6 years, but now that Chrome has matured and is basically as compatible and expandable (or more) than Firefox, I'm sticking with Chrome, just like almost everyone else I know.
Mozilla has done some great work on Firefox over the years as well, but it seems to me like they're stuck in a rut. There haven't been any significant changes in Firefox in months...and their new "gestures" for Mac suck BIG TIME...
Originally posted by DSWarrior: Smells like a buy-out to me. I hated Chrome when it came out and I was a Firefox purist for over 6 years, but now that Chrome has matured and is basically as compatible and expandable (or more) than Firefox, I'm sticking with Chrome, just like almost everyone else I know.
Mozilla has done some great work on Firefox over the years as well, but it seems to me like they're stuck in a rut. There haven't been any significant changes in Firefox in months...and their new "gestures" for Mac suck BIG TIME...
Nonsense.......you're using Chrome at its simplest. Chrome is highly incompatible with numerous applications specific to corporate environments. It's incompatible with quite a bit out there and the lamest, most useless browser around. Firefox is DeFacto standard and IE makes for a viable backup for when jackass websites choose to write their code SPECIFICALLY for IE.
Phhooooey to Chrome crap. Chrome OS is just as bad. What a ghetto OS for lowlife bottom feeders whom can't afford anything else that's functional or practical.
I should remember though, you hinted you're a MAC user. Apple users are those that aren't proficient computer users looking for something that fixes itself and answers its own questions so I'm not surprised you're a Chrome user.
FireFox is a joke and I wouldn't pay $300M/yr just to have it as the default home site. Chrome maybe basic in features compared to FF but at least it can handle most sites, FF fails big time these days.
Something bothers me about this. Something I asked years ago in various other tech related forums and even news-groups.
Isn't a "default" search engine in some way akin to a "default" web browser? Surely Mozilla - free or not - are forcing users in its default install to use a product that they don't need... which is exactly what MS did way back when.
Originally posted by Zoo_Look: Isn't a "default" search engine in some way akin to a "default" web browser? Surely Mozilla - free or not - are forcing users in its default install to use a product that they don't need... which is exactly what MS did way back when.
Sure. But you also have to look at market share and monopoly status. The browser market is now anything but a monopoly. You've got three main contenders with vigorous competition. That's a lot different than Microsoft having 95% market share and telling everybody they must use IE.
In such a situation the Justice department and to a lesser extent the EU will probably let it pass.
You misunderstood. I was talking about Mozilla making Google the default search engine.
After a clean install, 100% of Firefox installations are using Google as their search engine. The user had to take further steps to configure their setup to use a different search. That's in every way a monopoly.
