Mozilla Raking in Millions?

truthsearch writes "Internetnews.com wonders about the money Firefox is making in revenue thanks to Google. From the article: 'Mozilla gets paid a publicly undisclosed amount for each Google search query made from Firefox by a user.' This revenue is used to pay the recently formed Mozilla Corporation's 40 full-time equivalent employees and fund project and infrastructure development."

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What's also funny is its really hard to get rid of

[timecop]

If you use the firefox search box for google, you'll notice it inserts a huge query string into google, including stuff like "client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official", which i what I assume allows google to pay them.
But, even if you look in about:config, this extra string is nowhere to be found! I wanted to disable it, because I don't need google (or anyone else) to know I'm using firefox.

The way to remove it, as I eventually found out, is to rename the search engine name,
on windows it would be in %programfiles%\mozilla firefox\searchplugins.
Just renaming google.src to somethignelse.src wouldnt work, you need to go inside and change its name to like "Jewgle", and reload firefox. Then, select the new "Jewgle" as your search engine, and boom, no more extra money-generating user agent spying info is inserted into the query string.