Ubuntu Moves To Yahoo For Default Firefox Search

An anonymous reader writes "Starting in Ubuntu's Lucid Lynx release, Firefox's default search engine will be switched from Google to Yahoo. The switch was made after Canonical 'negotiated a revenue sharing deal with Yahoo.' Google will still be available as a choice. Since Yahoo search is now powered by Microsoft's Bing, this would seem to mean that Microsoft will be paying people for using Ubuntu."

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[data2]

Great... First they remove gimp and replace it with crap, and then they use an inferior search engine. I mean, it is all configurable, but still, do they want to make it as hard to configure Ubuntu as to configure Windows?

why is something rational and rightful modded down

[unity100]

a) they clearly stated that upgrades will change your existing setting to yahoo

i second that - anyone, with anything, for any reason, changes my already saved settings to something i didnt choose for, is on my blacklist.

anyone who argues otherwise can go to hell. its MY personal preferences and settings. if, even a free software organization messes with that, and for profit, they can shove their software up their asses. i take up free software to be free in anyway. i cant tolerate small or major interventions to my freedoms for any amount of profit they may receive.