Firefox may blow, it will be still funded by Google for 3 years

The agreement between the Foundation Mozilla and Google on Firefox is renewed for the next three years.

With declining usage statistics, Firefox saw his very lucrative contract with Google threatened. Especially that Chrome, the browser by Google himself, him file the train (and would have even exceeded it some figures). A reminder, Google is the primary source of income of the Mozilla Foundation, that it pays to install by default its search engine in the browser to the red panda.

Knowing that the contract between the two came to term last month, we we were uneasy future of Mozilla, whose leaders remained tranquil. And they were right because one learns that the contract with Google has been renewed for the next three years. However, we do not know on what basis, and it would be logical that Google has been hard in case, negotiating his contract down given that Firefox is less used.

"Under this multiannual agreement, Google Search continue to be the search engine by default of hundreds of millions of Firefox users around the world" said Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla. Without this agreement (which represented 86% of the turnover of the Mozilla Foundation in 2008), it is the death in the medium term of Firefox which could be signed.