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Not too surprising... their search engine is no longer the default in FF and there are legal justifications not to support directly (FF) or indirectly (YHOO) a

• wongarsu 12y ago
  That's one possible explanation, but I think it's equally likely that they thought some smaller project needed the help more than the already big Mozilla Foundation. Besides, so far I didn't get the impression that Google really sees FF as a competitor (at this point in time). Google is not in the business of making browsers, they make a browser because that happens to be the best way to steer the future of the web. Mozilla seems to have similar views for that future and together they are beating IE into submission.
  • bzbarsky 12y ago
    Mozilla is also not in the business of making browsers per se, fwiw; it's making a browser because that happens to be the best way to steer the future of the web. See the Mozilla Manifesto. And while Google and Mozilla agree on some aspects of the web's future, there are other parts (fingerprinting, tracking of users) on which there are pretty fundamental disagreements.