“Under this multi-year agreement, Google Search will continue to be the default search provider for hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world,” said Gary Kovacs, CEO, Mozilla.
“Mozilla has been a valuable partner to Google over the years and we look forward to continuing this great partnership in the years to come,” said Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Search, Google.
The specific terms of this commercial agreement are subject to traditional confidentiality requirements, and we’re not at liberty to disclose them.
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Pick a site, any site, and “share” buttons are littered all over the place.
Mozilla/Firefox is asking why not bring that basic functionality up to the browser. [more]
Not sure how we feel about this. Here’s why. While browser-level functionality would be great, this feels like it could create a situation where Firefox (or Google) picks the winners, rather than letting the market decide for itself. What if, five years from now, Tumblr is as big as Twitter? Or some social networking site we’ve never even heard of usurps Facebook? (It’s happened before.) One could argue this is why Apple’s Twitter integration in iOS5 is a bad idea. At some point you create an artificial monopoly by integrating directly into the browser. And plus, from a Web designer’s perspective, they want that control. It’s their content; let them promote it. They can do A/B testing to know what works best for them. This, however, is one-size-fits-all. It would ultimately curb, not promote, sharing. Let the users decide for themselves. A good developer knows how to integrate these cleanly. Teach good design; don’t let Firefox excuse bad design.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltskvcKOEs1qedj2ho1_500.jpg)
