Comment by nickpsecurity
1 year ago
Didn't Mozilla make it's money on search? If so, how would Chrome disappearing kill Firefox which is independently developed and funded differently?
On responding Chrome, I'll add that's partly because Google controlled Search and Chrome which helped Chrome get dominant. Then, web site owners made pages good for Chrome by default. Then, it was harder to compete with Chrome since everyone had to imitate it. If it's independent (or even weakened), that might reverse a bit. Might not.
Saying Mozilla made its money on search is misleading. It made money because Google paid to be the default search engine. Without that deal Mozilla would be in a much worse state. It's why Mozilla is scrambling to become an ad company.
I meant that it made it's money off Google Search. A search engine company paid it. I apologize if it was confusing to anyone.
So, the fact that they're paid to support Google Search means Chrome being divested shouldn't hurt them. The only exception I could see is if they had to pay the new owner of Chrome like that, didn't add anything to the budget, and split it between the two. That's pure speculation, though.
Perhaps Mozilla could build an ad-supported search engine, seeing that google appears to be giving up search