Also, grepping for “browser.search.order” gives almost all “.1=Google” and “.2=Yahoo”, and leaving out only these two gives exactly:
cs: browser.search.order.2=Seznam
ja: browser.search.order.2 = Yahoo! JAPAN
ja: browser.search.order.3 = \u697d\u5929\u5e02\u5834
ja: browser.search.order.4 = goo \u30a6\u30a7\u30d6
ja: browser.search.order.5 = Yahoo!\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30d4\u30f3\u30b0
ja: browser.search.order.6 = Yahoo!\u30aa\u30fc\u30af\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3
ja: browser.search.order.7 = Amazon.co.jp
ja: browser.search.order.8 = Creative Commons
ru: browser.search.order.2 = Yandex
sk: browser.search.order.2=Atlas
So yeah, Google is #1 and Yahoo is #2, and there’s not much localisation beyond that. Unless they are somewhere else….
— shreevatsa 
In china and japan it’s yahoo:
http://zh-cn.start.mozilla.com/
http://ja.start.mozilla.com/
not sure what others.
I remember some time ago, Yahoo was default search engine in Firefox for some Asian countries.
http://www.google.com/search?q=firefox+yahoo+default+search+engine
May be you can try it here,
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/partners/yahoo/
But in the above site, I find only exe’s and no xpi’s.
— Saravanan
Asa’s memory’s good, but it’s not always the freshest. What he was forgetting was bug 364297, where Gavin had to move heaven and earth to make it possible to change defaults for home page and default search engine (from Yahoo, to Google, in CJKT) for new profiles on the “stable” branch without blowing away existing profile choices, “[p]er contract requirements with” your employer.
Mark, you could have asked Gooogle and found out the story before calling me a liar.
The first hit on a search for: firefox yahoo default search, and you’d have found several articles right up at the top talking about when we switched to Yahoo for CJK default search.
And, yes, we did switch it back, after about a year. We switched back because our users in Asia told us over and over during that year that they searched more often with Google.
We had thought, based on some market share data and input from some of our users that Yahoo would be a better default in Asia. We made the change trying to do the right thing for our users and when it turned out that it wasn’t the right thing, we returned the defaults to Google.
- A
— Asa Dotzler
And you could have asked Mozilla and found out the story before lying in public.
— Mark
This is as interesting from a social perspective as a technical one, as the biggest difference the average Joe will see between the two search engines is the colour scheme. Is it just brand loyalty, or are less-knowledgeable users like myself missing something?
— Jake
Mark, we love you and all, but you need to get a grip on the Asperger’s or something. Treating a comment made at one moment in time (which might not be rightthissecond) as an intentional deception is over the top.
— Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy: Seems like you’re easily led by Dotzler’s straw manning.
If it “isn’t about money”, why are Mozilla taking it?
— Marcus
All I see here is someone taking a statement and fact-checking it. And aside from his usual cynicism, I don’t see all that much abrasiveness in this post.
Am I missing something? Perhaps I misunderstood the data structures and I’m looking in the wrong place? Perhaps there are other localization bundles lurking on some other site?
That looks like an honest attempt at saying “Look I don’t see what you said, but it’s possible I may not understand exactly how this works.”
Just because he’s right doesn’t mean he’s being a dick.
And don’t get me wrong, I’ve also seen him be a dick… ; )
— Ryan
Its foolish when you need to have to seach inputs on IE7, its default ang google toolbar.
— Rokas
It is a little more acerbic than usual around here, if you ask me (and I know you didn’t). Mark, it is overreacting to accuse Asa of lying in public. As a matter of fact they DID default to other search engines in some cases, those being Yahoo in CJKT when it seemed like the right thing to do.
If you’re trying to make a larger point, perhaps concerning the ‘contractual obligations’ referred to in bug 364297, it would be more effective to just make the point instead of badmouthing the principles.
— rob
sorry, grammar police. its principals, not principles.
— rob
Well, I started by just wanting to do a little research and write up my results, but Asa had to take it to the next level, and there’s something about the way he does that that consistently gets under my skin. So, I apologize for the overstatement, and I accept Phil’s educated guess that Asa was simply operating under old information.
Getting back to the original Slashdot article that prompted this, it’s pretty clear that Mozilla is trying to assert their independence, and failing. “Methinks the lady doth protest too much” and all that. But at least they’re admitting that they’re getting the bulk of their revenue from a single vendor. (As an aside, I can’t imagine what it must feel like to be doing your thing and one day have a billion-dollar sugar daddy start sending you multi-million-dollar checks… each month.) I think Asa’s right that Mozilla could score a deal with someone else — Yahoo, or Ask, or even Microsoft — pretty quickly if Google cut them off. I can’t imagine why Google would do that, but my job description doesn’t go anywhere near “confidential contractual obligations,” so what do I know.
— Mark