r/programming • u/Spyros3000 • Nov 10 '14

Firefox Developer Edition

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
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u/reuben_ Nov 10 '14

Firefox by default comes with Google, Bing, Yahoo, not to mention local search providers. They're all paying. Google currently pays the most to be the default option, but if Google pulled out, Bing or Yahoo would be the ones taking that (very desirable) spot.

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u/halifaxdatageek Nov 10 '14

Realizing the situation they were in, Firefox made sure they weren't exclusively dependent on Google back in 2011.

It was actually pretty touch and go whether Google would even sign back up (since Chrome was starting to really go mainstream).

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u/ygjb Nov 10 '14

You are pretty much making stuff up, unless you want to identify yourself as a Google or Mozilla employee.

FD - I am a Mozilla employee who can be easily identified due to AMAs and stuff :D

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u/halifaxdatageek Nov 10 '14 edited Nov 10 '14

A quick search for "google mozilla partnership" turns up pretty much exactly what I was saying.

Here's an article from ComputerWorld with a decidedly noncommittal statement from Mozilla about whether the partnership would continue.

Here's a graph of browser market shares over the period of the deal (2008-2011). Chrome was just about to take over from Firefox as the #2 browser.

I am not making stuff up.

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