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Chrome Complicates Mozilla/Google Love-In

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the also-water-is-wet dept.

Barence writes "Mozilla CEO John Lilly has admitted the Firefox maker's relationship with Google has become 'more complicated' since the company launched its own browser. Mozilla is dependent on Google for the vast majority of its revenue and has previously worked closely with the search king's engineers on the development of Firefox. But that relationship appears to have cooled since Google released Chrome in the summer. 'We have a fine and reasonable relationship, but I'd be lying if I said that things weren't more complicated than they used to be.'"

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  1. Re:Hmm. by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think we're about to see if Google really isn't evil.

    Just remember that it's not evil to not support a competitor.

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  2. Re:Hmm. by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh, and the obvious addition: It's not evil to compete, either. (not even if you're Microsoft)

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  3. Re:Don't take the bait by Bert64 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because chrome offers very little that linux/mac users don't already have...
    If they released the source to something that wasn't already available, you can be sure more developers would pick it up.

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  4. Re:Don't take the bait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only thing keeping me on Firefox is AdBlock Plus. The second that's in Chrome (or Chromium), I'm gone.

    Google sell ads. Why would they block them? Cory Doctorow has an excellent take on this.