Firefox 34 Arrives With Yahoo As The Default Search Engine

The title is not a misprint. If you’re a Firefox user and you upgrade to version 34, you’ll notice that Yahoo and not Google is the default search engine in North America. Now this won’t override your existing choice if you’re a veteran user, but it will ask once if you’d like to switch. New users will get Yahoo by default. Now they have made other improvements such as a video chat feature and an improved search bar reduces the number of clicks to your search and makes it easier to search third party sites, like Wikipedia, Amazon and Twitter. Plus there’s the remove of SSL 3.0 which was the central reason for this exploit that I reported on while back. But the key thing is the switch from Google to Yahoo seeing as this is the first Firefox release since Mozilla’s announcement on Nov. 19 that it was ending its search partnership with Google. I suspect we’ll find out very soon how many people keep Yahoo as their default search provider.