Posted on 01/28/2010 10:18:02 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
The next release of Ubuntu will scrap Google as the default search engine on its Firefox browser in favor of Yahoo!, thanks to a new revenue-sharing deal between Yahoo! and commercial Ubuntu backer Canonical.
With regulators set to approve Yahoo!'s search pact with Microsoft, this means that Redmond will power the future of Firefox on Ubuntu, a combination with decidedly anti-Redmond connotations. The ultimate irony is that Microsoft will essentially be paying people to build a Linux distro.
Canonical's Rick Spencer announced the Yahoo! revenue deal on Tuesday, with a post to the Ubuntu developer mailing list.
With the next release of Ubuntu - version 10.4, dubbed Lucid Lynx and due in April - Yahoo! will be the default engine in the search box in the top right-hand corner of the Firefox browser bundled with the OS, and Yahoo! search will be the browser's default homepage.
As is typical with Firefox, users will have the option of changing the search box default. This means they can change it back to Google, and thanks to another Lucid Lynx change announced by Spencer, doing so will also switch the browser's homepage to Google. If you choose a search provider other than Google or Yahoo!, Lynx may or may not update the browser's homepage in similar fashion. Canonical has yet to sort out the situation involving other providers.
The outside edge of the browser - where the Firefox search box resides - is known as "the chrome." Not to be confused with the Google web browser of the same name. "In Lucid, the default home page will respect the search provider settings that you have set in the 'chrome,' Spencer writes.
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Good. Maybe Firefox will now have some resources to stop the memory leak out the back side that hangs up your system. Does anyone have a fix for this, it is madness.
It is like it has some kind of switch so that you don't copy anything new until you paste the current contents of the previous copy..but not always...???
I have a 4 gig Linux Mint system and very rarely ever see the memory usage get much over 1 Gig....and I don’t have any hangs...either.
That is the 64 bit version of Mint 8.
Have more trouble with my mouse freezing (brrr) in place .
What makes you think it is Firefox?
Not only the mouse but the whole system ,,, disabled some of the add-ons works fine . having not figured out which ones causes the trouble.
Ernest ,,, forgot to add this on a 64-bit HP ,,
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