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Mozilla was to announce a deal with Google's search engine on how to install it as a standard solution of Firefox, the site says CyberSecurity.
This contract allows Mozilla significantly supplement its own budget, and Google - to get traffic to its search engine to Firefox users. The term of a previous agreement between Mozilla and Google has expired in November and December expected renegotiation of the contract for another year. However, it seems, did not happen. Neither Mozilla, or Google has not reported this week on the prolongation of the contract.
Meanwhile, last year's budget for Mozilla, estimated at 123 million dollars, 84% is comprised of the ... In Mozilla itself does not say on a new contract with Google, saying that at the moment they ... Many experts say that if Mozilla is not able to conclude a new agreement with Google, then the company will seek a sponsor urgently somewhere that can close the budget hole of about $ 100 million a year.
In general, on similar agreements with suppliers of various search products, Mozilla got 98% of its annual budget. Mozilla previously concluded an agreement with Google, Bing, Yahoo, by Yandex, Amazon, eBay and other. However, the most extensive and stable partner for Mozilla until now it was Google. The cooperation the two companies began in 2007.
Mitchell Baker, chairman of the nonprofit group Mozilla Foundation, recently in an interview, acknowledged that living without the financial support of their company Google would be difficult, given the non-commercial developments Mozilla, but the company will be able to live without money, and Google. On new sources of funding, it is nothing.
Obviously, if Google has refused to sponsor Mozilla, then it was done only on market considerations - in order to make life a little bit Firefox and clear the way for its own browser Google Chrome.
A few days ago, research firm StatCounter published data on the popularity of web browsers, according to which Google Chrome has bypassed most popular browser Mozilla Firefox, and now the development of the Internet giant on the world market is second only to Microsoft Internet Explorer. According to StatCounter, at the end of November this year, Google Chrome browser is occupied 25.69 %, which is 4.66% higher than the previous year. At the same time, the share of Firefox is 25.23 %. The main player in the market continues to be Microsoft Internet Explorer with a share of 40.63 %.
In the research firm NetApplications, also provides data on the division of the browser market, they say that Google Chrome is still in third place, behind the share of Mozilla Firefox. In NetApplications say that the trend of increasing popularity of Chrome is obvious, but will pass on the browser market share of its competitor only in February -March 2012.
According to StatCounter, the U.S. share of Microsoft Internet Explorer for the year increased by 0.42 % to 50.66 %. Firefox retained second place with 20.09 %, which is 6.66 % lower than during the same period. At the same time, the percentage of Chrome grew by 6.41% to 17.3 %. The share of Safari for the year changed insignificantly, and now the browser is 10.76 % of the market.
... Given how rapidly the market share of Chrome chance that the browser will become a serious competitor to Microsoft, are very high, ...