What's this Firefox ad doing in Yahoo?

I was reading the Yahoo! news this morning when I noticed something odd at the far upper right side of my browser. yep, it definitely said "Upgrade to the new Firefox."

That got me stumped! I always thought Mozilla to be a Google partner.  hmmm..
My curiosity got the best of me and finally led me to this article.

"Firefox users in the US will now see Yahoo as their default browser, but Google may have allowed itself to be outbid" 

Having read that, I opened the Firefox browser immediately and was expecting to see the Yahoo! search engine as the default. I'm not sure if it is in the more recent Firefox versions but mines was ver. 35.0.1. I opened the options button to check and Google was still the priority search engine. (The article did mention it would be applied in the US, China and Russia). Probably will eventually happen in the newer versions.

Search engine is not obvious here

Yep! It's still Google

And because of that, I got three takeaways from the article I read.

1. Firefox was no longer the no. 1 browser. Chrome is.

2. "Google was paying 0.3 cents per Firefox search." Wow!

3. Firefox doesn't show up in the top nine browsers for mobile and I found myself saying, that's true! My smartphone don't have Firefox. Or.. maybe it's in the tenth spot.. :)

 As for the Firefox ad in the Yahoo! site? Must be a prep for Mozilla-Yahoo relationship. Just saying.