From InfoWorld: As anticipated, Mozilla today updated Firefox to version 34, automatically switching the browser's default search from Google to Yahoo for most users in North America.
Firefox 34 launched early Monday to little fanfare from Mozilla, who touted it only on the update's Notes page.
Along with the North American search change, Mozilla also automatically switched from Google to Yandex in the Russian, Belarusian and Kazakh localizations. Mozilla had dropped Yandex in 2012 in favor of Google.
Both Yahoo and Yandex were previously announced -- although earlier Mozilla had said that the former had claimed the default only in the United States -- two weeks ago when the open-source developer said it had quit its 10-year partnership with Google as Firefox's more-or-less-global search default. Instead, Mozilla said it would strike deals market by market.
Mozilla has not disclosed the financial terms of the five-year contract with Yahoo. In 2013, the most recent year for which Mozilla has released financial information, it received approximately $275 million from Google for using the Mountain View, Calif. company's engine as the Firefox default.
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