Mozilla tells US court agreement with Google not 'de facto exclusive agreement'
( May 29, 2026, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Mozilla told a US appeals court that a district court’s conclusion that making Google Search the search default in Firefox converted Mozilla’s Google distribution agreement into a de facto exclusive agreement was both legally and factually erroneous. The company filed a brief in support reversing a ruling on the distribution agreement in an antitrust case brought by the Department of Justice against Google. “Mozilla has consistently partnered with Google’s rivals and promoted their competing search engines despite having a default search agreement with Google. Moreover, Mozilla’s three-year experience with Yahoo as the out-of-the-box search default and its subsequent user preference experiments establish that non-default search engines can compete for and win significant percentages of Firefox search traffic by presenting users with a preferable product and experience,” it argued.See attached file. ...
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