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Moving Forward with Firefox

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Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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"Moving Forward" "achieved positive growth again and dramatically reset our global search strategy" Did anyone else find those phrases to be a bit too much corporatese for Mozilla?

They changed the default search provider from Google to Yahoo in the US, Yandex in Russia, and Baidu in China. (I believe only new installs were affected by this change.) The word "dramatic" is a bit over the top, but the changes were significant given their longstanding relationship with Google.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"achieved positive growth" is pretty self-explanatory. "dramatically reset the global search strategy" is a bit weirder but they are (most likely) talking about their search deal with Google which they terminated in favour of Yahoo! and yes, that is a pretty dramatic reset. If you don't want to read corporatese, well, don't read a corporate blog. Mozilla is a great company and a great presence for the web, but Mozill…

That's posted on mozilla.org, not mozilla.com tho. There's a fine balance between the two.

There's currently no meaningful distinction between the two domains. mozilla.org is the standard domain for all mozilla sites (developer.mozilla.org, addons.mozilla.org, or, in this case, blog.mozilla.org). I think we maybe use mozilla.com for a handful of internal things.

The corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the non-profit, so the .org domain isn't necessarily a misrepresentation, either.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"achieved positive growth" is pretty self-explanatory. "dramatically reset the global search strategy" is a bit weirder but they are (most likely) talking about their search deal with Google which they terminated in favour of Yahoo! and yes, that is a pretty dramatic reset. If you don't want to read corporatese, well, don't read a corporate blog. Mozilla is a great company and a great presence for the web, but Mozill…

That's posted on mozilla.org, not mozilla.com tho. There's a fine balance between the two.

Mozilla.com redirects to Mozilla.org. Mozilla have the dual structure, but when it comes to their web presence, I don't think they are making too much of a distinction.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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For the first time ever I had my sleaze senses tingling after a recent Firefox install. There is now advertising on the new tab page. And why was I forced onto yahoo search instead of giving me the option?

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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post #36

For the first time ever I had my sleaze senses tingling after a recent Firefox install. There is now advertising on the new tab page. And why was I forced onto yahoo search instead of giving me the option?

1. I believe you can turn the ads off. Firefox needs revenue, like any other organization with employees to feed.

2. I believe you can change your search provider. Yahoo search was made the default because Yahoo pays Mozilla a lot of money for it. Mozilla needs money, see #1. If we can diversify the search market while supporting free software, that's fine by me.

Re: Moving Forward with Firefox

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post #36

For the first time ever I had my sleaze senses tingling after a recent Firefox install. There is now advertising on the new tab page. And why was I forced onto yahoo search instead of giving me the option?

That's funny. I felt almost the opposite, coming from Chrome. I completely blanked out the new tab page in about 5 seconds, and I was able to switch away from Yahoo in about 10. I'm not a big Firefox guy but was swayed by a recent writeup lauding the "Firefox is great for heavy tab users" aspect.
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