New Search Strategy for Firefox

Re:New Search Strategy for Firefox by Yoric on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:23PM (#8633072)

Is there any monetary reason to pick many search providers instead of just Google? This is possible, your guess is as good as mine. Regardless, I believe that not going with Google is a very sound strategy. If Mozilla has the choice between an alliance with a competitor with overwhelming firepower and whose clear interest is making Mozilla obsolete and an underdog with an interest in growing along with Mozilla, why pick the competitor?

Also, regarding your comment on FirefoxOS: I don't know where you heard that Mozilla expected to support itself through Firefox OS / Firefox Marketplace revenue, but I never heard anybody claiming this (I work at Mozilla). The main reason to introduce Firefox OS was (and still is) to promote openness on the mobile world (i.e. "wrestle duoplogy from Apple and Google"), just as Mozilla/Phoenix/Firefox was introduced to promote openness on the web (i.e. "wrestle monopoly from Microsoft").

Edit: clarifications.

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Re:New Search Strategy for Firefox by gsnedders on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:26PM (#8633394)

It's worthwhile to note that Yandex are, in principle, also a competitor. (They ship their own branded version of Chromium; I'm not sure what level it's built at, whether it's just a different theme and some minor additions, or built from scratch on the Chromium Content API. It is, however, frequently out of date and with known security issues, le sigh…)

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Re:New Search Strategy for Firefox by kibwen on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:30PM (#8633102)

I also see FirefoxOS as Mozilla's long-shot hedge against the spectre of walled gardens. With first iOS and then WinRT disallowing third-party browsers, a world dominated by locked-down platforms would be a death sentence for Firefox.

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Re:New Search Strategy for Firefox by venomsnake on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:54PM (#8633224)

I always wondered why no one tried lawsuit on that topic in Europe for iOS devices? It is arguably worse than the IE situation (you used IE just once to get a real browser), but right now Safari is only game in town for no technical reason and everyone is cool with that. No addons, no adblock ...

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Re:New Search Strategy for Firefox by fhd2 on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:25PM (#8633384)

I suppose that's fine legally unless you're a monopoly. Windows is (or was?). iOS, arguably, not really.

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