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cm0002@lemmy.world to Opensource@programming.dev · 4 days ago

Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival

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Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival

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cm0002@lemmy.world to Opensource@programming.dev · 4 days ago
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Google's search deal with Mozilla is such a sizeable portion of its overall income that without it, Firefox would struggle to compete - or even survive,
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    No, Firefox would die too. Or at least it would become completely irrelevant.

    The open source community doesn’t have enough manpower to maintain a browser engine.

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      We’ll just agree to disagree.

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