Lucid changes to Firefox default search provider

Celeste Lyn Paul celeste at kde.org
Tue Jan 26 20:14:48 GMT 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Rick Spencer
<rick.spencer at canonical.com> wrote:
> Why?
> I am pursuing this change because Canonical has negotiated a revenue
> sharing deal with Yahoo! and this revenue will help Canonical to provide
> developers and resources to continue the open development of Ubuntu and
> the Ubuntu Platform. This change will help provide these resources as
> well as continuing to respect our user's default search across Firefox.

Since Google is the current default, will the switch to Yahoo only
have an effect on new installs?

-- 
Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project
KDE e.V. Board of Directors
www.kde.org



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