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Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Baker's testimony shows that Mozilla depends so much on its deal with Google for revenue that "the biggest loser of a DOJ win in the Google case would be Mozilla."

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm surpsied (but obviously shouldn't be) that that many potential users would instantly bounce off Firefox instead of changing the default search engine.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly, the association with Yahoo just makes the platform look like a joke. Like, the first time you do a search and it pops up as Yahoo your first instinct is thinking you're using the wrong thing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yup it could be literally anything else but yahoo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Nothing binds me to my browser besides my bookmarks which can be exported, my addons which are usually on both platforms and my history.
At home and on my phone I use FF and am mostly happy.
At work I choose Chrome because most websites work best in it.