Yahoo replaces Google as Firefox's default search

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

Yahoo may be getting more serious about search again.

Mozilla is dropping Google as the default search engine for its Firefox browser, replacing it with Yahoo for U.S. users on their computers, phones and tablets.

Yahoo had farmed its search engine out to Microsoft five years ago.

FULL short story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20141119/us--firefox-yahoo_search-9984925ead.html

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. Dumb move...Yahoo Search sucks...

[C Moon]

2. The worst part about Yahoo is their rightwing news. It's disgustingly Fox-esque!!!

[Zorra]

11. Yep, we should all boycott Yahoo and their constant RW propaganda. nt

[tomm2thumbs]

15. It's becoming UFOs, Aliens and Right Wing Nutjob City -- believe me I avoid it as much as I can now

I wish there was a way to block individual sources... they keep posting content from The Examiner & Inquisitr.com and other awful tabloid-esque sites.

[IkeRepublican]

21. Scamps, Tramps and Fruitcakes

That's all Yahoo is anyway. Not to mention their acquisition of a hundred domains that countless businesses are strapped to and where Yahoo quietly moved their servers offshore resulting in massive email failures ever since.

Perfect for RW bullshit - offshore, monopolizing and endless failure - commonly known as "the free market" to those cobb knobblers.

[gvstn]

31. Yes

If you hover near the headline of an article you get three choices at the right where the "X" allows you to block certain topics. Unfortunately, most of the UFO headlines are categorized as Science. I don't want to block Science news but wish I could block the Examiner. I just keep trying whenever UFO is in the headline and hit the X and hope there is a keyword like Alien or UFO to block. Not much luck but last week I obviously got something right because I still get Space news but fewer Examiner headlines.

Good Luck!

[tomm2thumbs]

35. I know, tried blocking but can't choose 'astronomy' because it'd do the wrong thing

Thanks, been keeping an eye out, like yourself, and posting in forums about yahoo's stupidity in linking to that trash in hopes it eventually gets seen by someone at yahoo.com who can fix it, or at least they can add UFO to the blocking terms. I know they are doing it on purpose when they don't include those terms -- total clickbait for advertising dollars I suspect.

[TBF]

3. Google is better -

I always change it back on my computer.

[ffr]

4. Won't use it even if included.

[KamaAina]

5. No to both

DuckDuckGo doesn't track you.

http://www.duckduckgo.com

[a kennedy]

7. Got this right....

Always use DuckDuckGo....the best for Not following.

[CountAllVotes]

10. +1

n/t !!!!!

[TygrBright]

14. YES to the Duck! I always try to Duck it, first. Google is a last resort. n/t

[KoKo]

16. The Duck is Good... Sadly AVG AntiVirus is pushing Yahoo Search

or Yahoo Search is Claiming that "AVG Protected Yahoo Search" is a good thing.

That's what keeps popping up on Yahoo.

The DUCK is the One...though...for now..

[TygrBright]

25. AVG is AVSpam. There are so many better free options. n/t

[KoKo]

29. What would you suggest?

[TygrBright]

30. If you are running a Windows box, Microsoft has finally unfucked Security Essentials.

There's also SuperAntiSpyware or Spybot S&D, and Malwarebytes free version.

I run WinSE, Spybot and MalwareBytes and with reasonable browsing hygeine have had very good results.

You can also ankle on over to the Computer Help and Support Forum and see the recommendations in a pinned post on security there.

helpfully,
Bright

[KoKo]

34. Thanks...I've read some favorable reports on Microsoft SE...

and I've use Malwarebytes for several years and it's great. But, we've had two Tech Security people say AVG was the best when we had office computer problem a few years ago. So, that's why I still use it.

But, like everything...it seems good programs get ruined over time. One can't be "free" that long without someone wanting to make a profit. But, I wonder what Microsoft gets out of providing it's own "free" program.

Thanks for your suggestions.

[DeSwiss]

17. Bingo!

[mockmonkey]

32. I just updated Firefox

they were promoting DuckDuckGo for the search engine so I picked that one. I didn't even notice Yahoo.

[Ratty]

6. The signs are all there

Firefox and Mozilla are dying. We just heard Firefox will soon deliver ads in its browser, now they're essentially adding a sponsored toolbar to their app. I've seen some great software go this route over the years before finally dieing out. They start by bundling an ask.com toolbar or some other toolbar nobody wants, then they make it harder to even figure out how to NOT install it, then they package a bunch more crapware you can't un-install. They're sold to various companies and passed around like a football, each company adding more and more bloat and crap to squeeze just a tiny bit more revenue out of the poor thing then it disappears into the mists of the internet.

Such a shame. But then it always is. I just don't really care for Chrome. They're focus is clearly on mobile and the desktop versions suffer for it.

[KamaAina]

8. And, of course, Chrome is Google

with all the tracking and NSA tie-ins that implies. What about Opera?

[IDemo]

18. I've tried Opera a few times over the course of a decade

and couldn't wait to rip it out each time. Not again for me.

[joshcryer]

24. Opera is basically Chrome now.

Chrome with mouse gestures built in.

[C Moon]

12. Probably dying because the iPhone, iPad, etc?

They were probably strongest on desktop computers.

[IronLionZion]

9. What about the 64 bit spinoffs like waterfox or pale moon?

I hope not

[IDemo]

19. I use Pale Moon on my Win7 partition

It hasn't been ported to Linux yet, so I'm still with Firefox here.

[IkeRepublican]

20. Ten four

PM removed all that garbage code in Mozilla that leaks the hell out of both Win and Mac.

Now, if I could just be patient with a version of Linux. With over 500 computers to look after, I'm strapped to Windows unless it's a server platform and just about every company proprietor won't allow that anyway.

[840high]

13. Yahoo sux

[onehandle]

22. Google is basically the private sector version of the NSA.

Fuck them.

Whatever weakens the GoogleAndroidNSA world is fine with those who care about personal freedom.

Google is 99% a sleazy advertising company.

[bhikkhu]

23. The best thing any of them could do is make it easy to actually chose a default browser

I've had no trouble with my Ubuntu OS Mozilla browser, for years now, where I use google. I also have a laptop with Windows for work now, and after installing Mozilla it was a major pain to get all the settings handled - 4 times I thought I had it set but Bing and Yahoo kept popping back up. I forget all the backdoors I had to close to get rid of them, but it took a couple online tutorials to finally figure it out.

If they make it easy to make a choice that's fine, but it gets pretty annoying when they make choice very difficult. I'd switch browsers before doing that again.

[merrily]

26. I use Firefox and made Google my defaut search engine. If I did, it must have been very easy to do,

although right now, I can't recall how I did it. However, if I found the instructions, they must have been very easy to find.

[mockmonkey]

33. You just click the down arrow...

where the search engine box is and pick from 4 search engines. It's pretty easy. I wouldn't want to use Yahoo. I picked DuckDuckGo since Firefox was promoting it when it updated this last time.

[merrily]

36. Thanks. I had duck duck go for a while, when the NSA stuff came out. But then, something got messed

up.

I thought Duck Duck Go might have been involved, so I tried to delete it and ended up deleting a download from my dead computer for which I had paid the Geek Squad at Best Buy $50.

The original problem probably had nothing at all to do with Duck Duck Go, but I now have DDG PTSD.

As you may have discerned by now, I am hopeless with technology. I'm lucky I can turn on the TV. Maybe even the light switch.

In the end, I thought it best to give the NSA full access to my searches. I figure that might bore them to death.

[mockmonkey]

37. So in your case...

Duck Duck Went. I thought I would give DDG a whirl and then i'll probably end up back in the land of the Google since they know all my likes and dislikes.

[merrily]

38. Yes, but I am an extreme.

As I said, I am pleasantly surprised when a light switch brings the result I want. (No exaggeration: Bad experience with a dimmer.)

[DAMANgoldberg]

27. Essentially this means Microsoft is running the show...

Microsoft's Bing is the search engine behind Yahoo! http://www.zdnet.com/mozilla-strikes-firefox-search-deal-with-yahoo-ending-long-partnership-with-google-7000035983/

Another factor, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo! CEO, was an employee of Google and there during the creation and funding phase of Mozilla Firefox.

If I were Microsoft, I would license their technology for Internet Explorer and merge it into the Browser and further demonstrate the newfound openness of some of their technology.

[freshwest]

28. Less choices on the corporate online sewer.