Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

[Corey Burger]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Rick Spencer
<rick.spencer at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 11:24 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 12:03 -0800, Rick Spencer wrote:
>> > All -
>> >
>> > I am writing to apprise you of two small but important changes coming to
>> > Firefox in Lucid.  I have asked the desktop team to start preparing
>> > these changes to make them available in Lucid as soon as reasonably
>> > possible. Probably on the order of weeks.
>>
>> I have a thought, does changing this default setting in Firefox break
>> Mozilla's branding rules? I assume that the lawyers have gone over it
>> already, but you know what Mozilla are like for trying to make sure that
>> Firefox is exactly the same as the one their release.
> Another good question.
>
> The answer is "no". I don't know if lawyers went over it, but as I said
> in a previous response, we work with the Mozilla team, and this was
> discussed with them, they were not surprised. We would not do something
> to Firefox that would violate Mozilla's rules, and we for sure wouldn't
> make a change like this without discussing with them first.
>
> In sum don't worry, all is fine with our relationship with Mozilla ;)

One thing I think us English speakers are forgetting is that Mozilla
has an active relationship with Yahoo as well and ships with Yahoo as
default in some Asian countries.

Corey