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Yahoo’s New Parent Oath And Mozilla Sue Each Other After Firefox Switched From Yahoo To Google
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Yahoo’s New Parent Oath And Mozilla Sue Each Other After Firefox Switched From Yahoo To Google

The legal battle between Mozilla and Oath, new parent company of Yahoo has heating up. Now it looks like Mozilla will be heading to court to kick back Yahoo Holdings and Oath over the alleged breach of contract. Yahoo’s new parent Oath filed a complaint against Mozilla in a California court on December 1, alleging a breach of contract. Now Mozilla has filed a counter complaint, with the Superior Court stating that the switch back was in line with a deal struck between the two companies. This switch is not as small as it appears. With Firefox Quantum's release, Mozilla had set aside its deal with Yahoo that it made in 2014, to make it the default search engine provider for users in US, with others as options. The deal was made at $375 million a year. Details of the deal were only...
Why Firefox Ditched Yahoo To Make Google Its Default Search Engine
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Why Firefox Ditched Yahoo To Make Google Its Default Search Engine

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]irefox Quantum is here. Mozilla took some time to come up with something like that, something which is better, faster and lighter. The last couple of years have not been great for Firefox. Chrome browser, that took it back in the late 2011 now dominates the market with more than 60 percent, figures as suggested by StatCounter. With this release, Mozilla has set aside his deal with Yahoo that he made in 2014, to make it the default search engine provider for users in US, with others as options. With this not being the only noticeable change, Firefox has now started to keep in mind user's interests, which it seemed to have forgotten long ago about. “We looked at real world hardware to make Firefox look great on any display, and we made sure that Firefox looks an...