You're missing some details. 1) They did go without Google for a couple of years. They had a partnership with Bing, and Yahoo for quite a while. But Bing and Y

You're missing some details. 1) They did go without Google for a couple of years. They had a partnership with Bing, and Yahoo for quite a while. But Bing and Yahoo remain rounding errors in the search market. 2) 2007 was before Google started dominating with Chrome - before Android even. 2007 was near peak Mozilla. To some degree, fighting Google probably contributed to their decline.