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Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
“We would be really struggling to stay alive.”
Firefox could be put out of business should a court implement all the Justice Department’s proposals to restrict Google’s search monopoly, an executive for the browser owner Mozilla testified Friday. If the DOJ’s other proposals work as it hopes, they would theoretically create many more quality search engines that could compete for Firefox’s default positioning, and take over the revenue share Google currently pays it. But Muhlheim says that would likely take such a long time that Mozilla would have to make significant cost cuts and strategy changes all while “waiting on a hypothetical future in which that happened.“ In the meantime, he said, “we would be really struggling to stay alive.”
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