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Re:Mozilla Research Projects by imglorp on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @04:28PM (#8794595)
For a while, the Thunderbird default search engine was pegged to Bing. There was no easy way to change it. A marketer came to the bugzilla to explain they would not fix it for business reasons.
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Re:Mozilla Research Projects by tinalumfoil on Wednesday December 24, 2014 @05:19PM (#8794726)
Which seems backwards because before Chrome, Google would pay Mozilla pretty large amounts of money [0] just to have their search as an easily-changeable default.

[0] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398046,00.asp

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