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Posted by Sam Reynolds — December 5th, 2011, 10:35 AM

Hardware Canucks reported last week about the changing hierarchy of browsers. Firefox, which was once the dominant alternative to Internet Explorer, has seen its market share eroded by the emergence of Google’s Chrome. Now, ZDNet is reporting that the Mozilla Foundation’s search partnership contract with Google — the Foundation’s biggest source of revenue — has expired.

In the 2010 fiscal year, 84% of Mozilla’s $123 million in revenue came directly from this Google search partnership contract.

According to ZDNet there has been no movement from Google on contract re-negotiations. This is somewhat expected, as when the contract was initially signed Google had yet to release Chrome. Now, they face the predicament of whether they should continue financing their direct competitor.

Will this be the end of Firefox?

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  • Anonymous

    Looking at current browser stats, Chrome seems to get most of its users from IE, not from Firefox. So it won’t be a surprise if Google renews the sponsorship/contract.

  • Lyserberggamer

    I don’t like this fellas!

  • Fucgoogle

    I’m staying with Firefox. Google is the new MS only worse.

  • http://twitter.com/the84 the84

    rest assured, i’d rather be mouthf****d by nazis, than switch to chrome.

    the google level of collusion with the intelligence / surveillance apparatus is second to none.

  • Anonymous

    I’m with you on that one, staying with firefox and I’m happy with it. I occassionally use IE9 but not so much Chrome. Firefox does it for me and I’m staying put!

  • Guest

    Firefox is the best, but lately it’s crashing when showing same pages is it a king of sabotage? Let’s say someone develops a video plugin that is not really compatible with Firefox.
    I think people is willing to have, with the PC, the same experience they have with their smartphones, if you don’t like you probably hate the next OS’s, or even the next versions of firefox, it’s sad but if chrome is winning it will probably be followed