[Bulk] Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Mon Feb 1 17:43:27 GMT 2010


On Thursday 28 January 2010 7:30:42 am Vishnoo wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 15:36 -0500, Michael Raugh, C.Ht. wrote:
> > > Change #2
> > > Change #2 is changing the default search provider in Firefox to Yahoo!
> >
> > And since Yahoo! inked their little deal with Microsoft, that means the
> > default search engine for new installs will be Bing.  Get ready for some
> > major pushback once people realize Canonical is in bed with Microsoft.
> >
> > <MR>
> 
> Why dont you see it this way >
> 
> "Since Yahoo search is now powered by Microsoft's Bing, this would seem
> to mean that Microsoft will be paying people for using Ubuntu."

Yep.  I always click the Microsoft ads on Linux sites.  Then Microsoft has to 
give money to people who promote Linux.  Don't see how forcing them to pay 
their "enemy" is a bad thing!

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Mackenzie Morgan
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