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Will Firefox Lose Google Funding?
SharkLaser writes "Mozilla's future looks uncertain. Last week Chrome overtook Firefox's position as the second most popular browser, the new versioning scheme is alienating some Firefox users, and now the advertising deal between Mozilla and Google, the one that almost fully funds Mozilla's operations, is coming to an end. One of Firefox's key managers, Mike Shaver, also left the company in September. 'In 2010, 84% of Mozilla's $123 million in revenue came directly from Google. That's roughly $100 million in funds that will vanish or be drastically cut if the deal is either not renewed or is renegotiated on terms that are less favorable to Mozilla. When the original three-year partnership deal was signed in 2008, Chrome was still on the drawing boards. Today, it is Google's most prominent software product, and it is rapidly replacing Firefox as the alternative browser on every platform.' Recently Mozilla has been trying to get closer with Microsoft by making a Firefox version that defaults to Bing. If Google is indeed cutting funding from Mozilla or tries to negotiate less favorable terms, it could mean Mozilla's future funding coming from Microsoft and Bing."
There still isn't a fully functional equivalent of AdBlock Plus even. The best they can do is hope the download takes long enough that the script can kill it. You still register the HTTP request, no matter what.
Beyond that, all this Firefox hate is ridiculous.
Iron is for dumb paranoid fuckers who don't actually care about their own security
TabMix Plus
AdBlock Plus
Ghostery
Better Privacy
ShareMeNot
NoScript
Greasemonkey
Lazarus
NitroPDF
The chromium world will need to cultivate as diverse and independent a community of developers for extensibility.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
How many damn times do people need telling?
How many times do people need to read the follow-ups to that story to realize that it was wrong? Even Dan Sullivan who were central in driving the original story went back on this claim in a follow-up blog post after he learned more about it.