Brilliant! As reported on ZDNet here.

“In the grand scheme of things Firefox is still a new technology. I’m not saying we are not going to be developing and exploring other areas — we are. But there are so many different products on the Yahoo network that there may be some products that are, perhaps, not appropriate for that browser,” the representative said.

Better to rely on your biggest competitor’s technology (yes, it’s Microsoft, not Google). In fact, it’s better to ignore the fact that a very large percentage of the power users on the web (the users you really want), are using Firefox (look at BoingBoing’s stats for example).

I guess Yahoo! really doesn’t understand strategy. Browser competition is good. Firefox’s success is good for everyone (except Microsoft). Yaho0!, get with the program and start really supporting and promoting Firefox.