60 search providers pre-installed across more than 90 languages.

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Subject	60 search providers pre-installed across more than 90 languages.
Organization	usenet-news.net
Date	2018-04-21 01:24 -0700

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> > Google poured billions of dollars into FireFox.
> 
> I thought they stopped in 2014 (a lot has happened to FF since then)
> when they went with the Yahoo deal? 

WikiPedia says:

    On December 20, 2011, Mozilla announced that the 
    contract [ with Google ] was once again renewed for 
    at least three years to November 2014, at three times 
    the amount previously paid, or nearly US$300 million annually.  

WikiPedia.ORG/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing

Nov 2017 "Blog.Mozilla.ORG" wrote:

    Google will also become our new default search 
    provider in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong and Taiwan.    

    Firefox default search providers in other regions are 
    Yandex in Russia, Turkey, Belarus and Kazakhstan; 
    Baidu in China; and Google in the rest of the world. 

    Firefox has more choice in search providers than any 
    other browser with more than 60 search providers 
    pre-installed across more than 90 languages.  

Oddly, Chrome doesn't have this, above.
The "Seach Providers" I use:

    Jeff-Relf.Me/SearchPlugins.PNG

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