'Google does not have to be with you' Firefox Mozilla publishes financial report

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Mozilla, which is developing browser Firefox, released its financial report in 2014. According to the financial report, the contract on searching with Google ended in 2014, but Mozilla has revealed that there is no big influence on the operation even if there is no income from Google.

The State of Mozilla: 2014 Annual Report - Mozilla
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2014/

Firefox maker Mozilla: We do not need Google's money anymore - CNET
http://www.cnet.com/news/firefox-maker-mozilla-we-dont-need-googles-money-anymore/

According to the financial report released by Mozilla, sales in 2014 were $ 329.58 million (about 40.3 billion yen), 98% of the total sales were Google and Yahoo! It is something you get by incorporating a search engine like Firefox 's defaults. Especially the connection between Google and Firefox is strong, I have renewed the contract for 10 years from 2004, but in 2014 I did not renew my contractYahoo!, Baidu, Yandex and virtually no revenue from Google will be lost after November 2014.


Mozilla's Denelle Dixon-Thayer said, "There is no commercial relationship between Mozilla and Google as of 2015," he said, while revealing that Google does not have a huge income, while Google By refraining from renewing the contract, we will be able to return to the strategy of enhancing the competition of the browser market that we were aiming for. " Developing Chrome which can be said to be a rival of Firefox By moving away from Google, Mozilla can push a free operation method more than before.

"Browser market competition" meaning Mozilla means giving users a lot of choices when they connect to the Internet, which includes mobile browsers as well as PCs. The mobile browser market is currently monopolized by only two companies, Apple and Google, and Mozilla has the aim of revitalizing the mobile browser market.

As Dixon - Thayer says, Mozilla has released Firefox for iOS and Android as well as PC. In addition to that, we released "Firefox OS" for mobile OS, and we are concentrating on spreading cheap smartphones in developing countries.

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Jim Cook of Mozilla says, "As we have signed up a new contract for search engines, sales in 2015 will be better than in 2014," said Jim Cook, Mozilla's concern about the lack of a contract with Google. It seems that it is possible to operate adequately without a contract with Google.