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Ask HN: Whatever happened to setting Firefox to use Yahoo?

2 pointsby throw555chipover 1 year ago
In 2014 there was this article: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fossbytes.com&#x2F;yahoo-replacing-google-become-default-search-engine-firefox&#x2F;<p>I remember when Firefox used to show Yahoo as a search engine choice in settings. Today it&#x27;s missing. It appears one can search for one of several addons and hope to get one properly supported by Yahoo. [Edited to be nice.]

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Dioxide2119over 1 year ago
I remember seeing that yahoo default option, then having to switch it back to Google (so this was long enough ago I didn&#x27;t use DDG&#x2F;Kagi), but I never noticed them remove yahoo outright as a search engine option. But indeed, it is gone.<p>The official addon (at least its username checks out, but might be a squatted username) appears to be [1].<p>I can&#x27;t even comment on why Yahoo! was removed except to speculate that perhaps Mozilla no longer had a contract to give them trademark permission to include Yahoo in their default search engine list?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;search-and-new-tab-by-yahoo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;search-and-ne...</a>