Comments on: Why Mozilla's Deal With Google Gets Ever Shakier

By: AB

AB — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:35:21 +0000

Perhaps the author of this article should look at what engine chrome uses and who owns/develops it. If google cuts off Mozilla, they will have to create their own browser engine or Gecko will go stale and Chrome will fall to the side with Mozilla.

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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : What’s ahead for Firefox? — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 04:06:02 +0000

[...] the browser, and soon we’ll get the OS. Meanwhile, Mozilla’s deal with Google is up this year. On one hand, Google’s deal funds a lot of Mozilla. Google has long maintained that the [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:16:53 +0000

The real reason Google will hesitate to pull the plug prior to Chrome supplanting Firefox is that Mozilla may get desperate if they lose that revenue stream. Mozilla would be forced into an M&A event with a Tier-1, which well could be a Yahoo! or a large internet independent (the newly spun out AOL?). If google loses 1/3-1/2 of that market, they are suddenly threatened. Mozilla is out to save the world and promote the internet...delivering significant share of traffic direct to google. With IE sending folks to bing, they need Firefox traffic now more than ever.

By: Mozilla Guy to Users: Leave Google, Switch to Bing « Web, Internet, Social Media, Technology

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:45:17 +0000

[...] deal; Google has been Firefox’s default search engine for years, and Mozilla has been largely financially dependent on Google. Having a high ranked Mozilla guy urge users to switch to Bing won’t sit well with [...]

By: larsen lewis

larsen lewis — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:26:34 +0000

google is not stupid to leaving mozilla so early.

that would happen only once chrome has gone past the firefox market share by some margin consistently.

google uses mozilla in two ways.

It kills competion with microsoft in terms of search engine by having the google as the default search engine and having firefox competing with Internet explorer at he same time.

By: Sebastian Rupley

Sebastian Rupley — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:47:00 +0000

@ Rambling Johnny--I agree that Chrome will mostly eat into IE's market share. I doubt whether Microsoft would ever supply the kind of financial support for Mozilla that Google has, though.

Sebastian

By: Rambling Johnny

Rambling Johnny — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:17:00 +0000

The likely outcome is that chrome is going to eat in IE market share instead of Firefox. Because IE is a soft target with still a large market share up for grabs. If both Firefox and Chrome increase their market share at the expense of IE Google would be insane to not renew their deal. Because that leave the door wide open for Microsoft to cut a deal with Mozilla so they could finally kill IE and embrace Firefox! Off course since it the smart move you can be sure Microsoft would never let go of their pride and do it!

By: ifstone

ifstone — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:04:11 +0000

Mozilla has never done anything particularly innovative. Even Google's Chrome, which in user-interface terms is nothing special, beats them in the plumbing department. Firefox after all these years is still riddled with memory leaks. Chrome finally just punted on this problem with its multi-process scheme.

The shame is that browsers like Opera and iRider show far more real innovation but get no attention from the press.

By: Foobar

Foobar — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:33:33 +0000

Google doesn't have a deal with Mozilla just for fun, it's probably because they see it as a good way to maintain a grip on the search market - probably the same reason Google has a deal with Opera Software.

If Google drop their deals with Mozilla and Opera, they could probably get deals with other search engines (as Opera has in eastern europe (Yandex) and China (Baidu)).

By: Mozilla Guy to Users: Leave Google, Switch to Bing | Twit U

Mozilla Guy to Users: Leave Google, Switch to Bing | Twit U — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:50:12 +0000