Why wouldn't they be happy? Google's a diverse company, it's not like every department/team has an unwritten goal to push Chrome at the expense of everything else.
It often feels like it, yes. Could it be that you don't see it because you are already using Chrome?
I use Edge on my Windows gaming machine (for minimal maintenance, I install drivers, Steam, and that's pretty much it) and configured Edge to clean everything including cookies on exit, like a permanent stateless Private Mode available for the occasional search.
End result: many Google apps (Search, Maps, YouTube, and probably many others) constantly display huge "Get Chrome" banners, that end up not only painful for the user experience, but contain plain lies: "A more modern, faster browser" says one, whereas Edge/Firefox/Chrome are now objectively in the same ballpark.
This constant soliciting across vast swaths of the web by one dominant actor controlling the end-to-end experience is abusive.
IIRC they still pay Mozilla for making Google the default homepage
True.
> "is there anything else they've done?"
Nah, and frankly that's just irrational in-my-head ranting, their behavior is entirely expected rational behavior. Google is a data junkie which critically all-caps NEEDS as much data as possible about us, in order to machine-learn our lives from head to toe so that it can make money helping companies sell us more stuff.
Of course Apple isn't bothering us to use Safari when browsing apple.com, it doesn't care as long as you buy Macs. Of course Microsoft neither, it doesn't care as long as you use their platforms.
But Google is different, it needs your data to operate, and so it will do whatever it takes to get its data fix, including bullying.
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EDIT+OFFTOPIC: cool article on your blog about AFL, thanks for sharing it :)
> True.
Not true. Mozilla switched to Yahoo a few years back; Google doesn't give them any money. And it's not the default homepage, it's the default search engine (the default homepage always starts out `about:home`).
And running firefox with a fresh new profile, I confirm all search sources (awesome bar, in-chrome search box, about:home in-content search box) default to querying Google, not Yahoo.
Is it new to be back to Google? Or maybe it's specific to Nightly builds? (53.0a1 2016-12-01) -- EDIT no, same behavior under 50.0.2 stable. And it's not the OS either, I tried Ubuntu and Windows --. Any idea why, then?
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...
Nit: s/North America/USA/, I guess, as I live in Canada and get Google.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_10 says "On January 12, 2016, support ended for IE10 on Windows operating systems capable of running Internet Explorer 11, due to new support policies dictating that only the newest version of IE available for a supported version of Windows will be supported. IE10 will only be supported on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard."