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...