alt Hacker NewsThat's my point... The fewer people use Firefox, the less money they get from Google. If you follow the money, it doesn't make sense for them to neglect Firefox.
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Google does not need Mozilla to have a sizable market share. They just need it as a semblance of competition in the browser space.
Tops make goods money as is. All they need to do is to keep Fx the way it is.
And Google won't be paying more if Firefox becomes something bigger than Chrome. Google has no interest in it. All they need is a spoiler effect.
The fewer people use Firefox, the less money they get from Google.
You obviously haven't been following the money.
The statistical global marketshare of Firefox is very close to that of Internet Explorer --- within a single rounding digit.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-go...
You’re the one who didn’t follow the money: they’ve made more from Google as their market share has decreased. Neat incentive, huh?
> The fewer people use Firefox, the less money they get from Google
This is not reflected in the numbers, at least from what I've found: 300m/year in 2011[1], 400+m/year in 2020[2], 485m/year in 2025[3].
[1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/1543269/google-to-pay-...
[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/mozilla-signs-lucrative-3-year-go...
[3] https://nerdschalk.com/85-of-mozillas-revenue-at-risk-firefo...