> Chrome makes Google no money besides having Google as the default search. Firefox makes Google money in exactly the same way. Firefox is just as important to

> Chrome makes Google no money besides having Google as the default search. Firefox makes Google money in exactly the same way. Firefox is just as important to Google's revenue as Chrome is. You forget that Google pays Mozilla a lot of money for something they can get for free every time a Chrome installation replaces a Firefox installation. So the potential savings for Google is (currently) $300M/year once they have killed off Firefox completely.