I think what Google has done (accidentally or deliberately) is perfect: drown Mozilla in search-deal grant money to attract executives and manager types to do a

I think what Google has done (accidentally or deliberately) is perfect: drown Mozilla in search-deal grant money to attract executives and manager types to do all sorts of vanity projects that lead to nowhere, so they can maintain their gimped "competitior" browser that lets them non-guilty of antitrust charges. It's counter-intuitive, but a continuously running money hose sometimes seem to attract these types of people and corrupt an organization. Ironically Google itself internally has this problem, where its limitless advertising revenue is being absorbed to all these shiny projects which people never really care about maintaining and its sole purpose is to advanced people's careers inside the company...