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Mozilla has extended its revenue deal with Google for another three years, following some will-they-won't-they speculation about the future of that "sweethearts" partnership. Interestingly, the contract renewal comes just weeks after Google's Chrome browser gently brushed past Mozilla's Firefox to become the world's second- …

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  1. Tom 15

    Well...

    Well, when Google first negotiated the deal Firefox has around 25%. Now they still have ~25% but Chrome has ~25%. It's all good news for Google really... they're now the default search engine on over 50% of desktop systems and pretty much all mobile devices.

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    1. John Sanders
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      @Tim 15

      Exactly my thoughts.

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  2. Mike Taylor

    Could be an anti-monopoly tactic

    Given the crap the MS got into with IE, funding an alternative browser - whilst still benefiting from it - is a very sensible strategy.

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  3. Heironymous Coward
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    Chrome popularity irrelevant

    The popularity of Chrome makes no difference to this deal, only the popularity of Firefox has some bearing on it (i.e. how many browsers / eyes have Google as their default search engine).

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  4. wiggers
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    Google toolbar?

    Does this mean Google will support the toolbar on Firefox again? Hasn't been working since about v6 AFAICR.

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