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Google, Firefox's default search engine again, ends Yahoo deal .

Almost  three years ago to the day , Mozilla switched a decade-long search strategy that placed Google as Firefox's global default search provider and began carving up territories. It signed a deal for Yahoo to be the default for US Firefox users and left Google as the default for the rest of the world, except Russian and China. Now, Mozilla has given Yahoo the shove and reinstated Google as the default for users in the US. The change in the default US search provider came as Mozilla launched Firefox Quantum, version 57, a faster and lighter browser thanks to a major  overhaul of the rendering engine , new multi-core support, and more efficient handling of tabs. Mozilla, a non-profit corporation, historically has earned most of its revenue from search. As CNET  reported at the time  Mozilla switched to Yahoo in the US, its 2012 revenues were $311m. Newer regional search deals with Google, Baidu, Yahoo, and Yandex helped bump Mozilla  revenues to $421m by 2015...