An executive of the browser owner Mozilla testified on Friday, if a court could be dropped from business to ban all the justice department’s proposals from Google’s search monopoly. “That’s terrible,” said Mozilla CFO Eric Mahalim.
DOJ wants to prevent Google from paying the default search engine in third -party browsers, including third -party browsers, including forced sales of Google’s own chrome browser and rivals need to synd with search results. The court has already ruled that Google has illegal monopoly, thanks to partially excluded deals that make it a default engine on browsers and phones, which deprives rivals of locations to distribute their search engines and scale. But when Firefox – whose CFO is testifying because Google offers its defense – directly compete with Chrome, but it has warned that depriving Google of profitable default payments can endanger its existence.
According to the organization’s profitable arm finance chief Mahalim, Firefox has participated in about 90 % of Mozilla’s income, which in turn helps fund the non -profit Mozilla Foundation. About 85 % of the revenue gets from its contract with Google, he added.
Losing this income at the same time would mean that Mozilla would have to “significantly deduce the company”, “Mahalim testified, and warned about” Spring below “that if the company had to backed up product engineering investment in Firefox, it could make consumers less attractive. There may be even less money for Open Source Web Tools And how to guess how AI can help fight the climate change.
Mozilla will have to “significant deduction in the company”
Ironically, Mohmal had suggested that many court domination could be abolished. He said, Firefox’s main gaco browser engine “is the only browser engine that is not through the bug -tech, but not through the unprecedented.” The other two are Google’s open source chromium and Apple’s web kit. Mozilla developed Gaco to stop the fear that Microsoft would control all the protocols on the Internet, Mahemim testified, and making goko helped various browsers to be mutual support, so access to the web would not be controlled by a company. (Unlike several other companies involved in Google Trial, Firefox has not expressed interest in buying chrome.)
Mohammed says changing taxes from Google is not as easy as dealing with another search engine provider or a non -special contract with Google. Mozilla has talked about the possibility of occupying Bang in a default location with Microsoft, but Mohmal has warned that the Google will be able to discuss the revenue share, without being able to bid on the deal. In the upper part of it, Mozilla has found that Bang does not accept traffic as effective as Google does today.
In a proposal to the board of Mozilla in December 2024, the company warned that the deprivation of Google’s payments “is a significant threat to Mozilla being a viable threat to a limited ability to decrease.” From 2021 to 2022, the company conducted a study to see what would happen if it converted Firefox consumer’s default search engines from Google to Bang, and found out that consumers who turned into Bengla had earned low income for Mozilla – Mahlam said if all its consumers were changed with Bang.
Mozilla has also tried to replace all users’ default search engines before, and that has not been recovered. Between 2014 and 2017, the company made Yahoo a default on its browser, and found that people dislike the experience so much that they completely turned into another browser.
“We’re really struggling to live”
If the DOJ’s second suggestions are expected, they theoretically makes many standard search engines that can compete for the default positioning of Firefox, and Google has currently handled its payments. But the palace Ham says it will take so much time that Mozilla will have to change the cost and change the strategy, while “waiting for a fictitious future in which it happened.” In the meantime, he said, “We are really struggling to survive.”
On the investigation by the DOJ, Mohmalm acknowledged that regardless of the court’s decision in this case, it would be better not to rely on a consumer for the majority of his income. And, he agreed, another browser company, Opera, has already managed to make more money than browser ads than already search deals. But although it may be a potential way to diversify Firefox’s income, he added, promoting such a business in Firefox may look different, because of the privacy protection approach, it takes the product.
Mozilla has a Supported selection screens for browsers On the phone and desktops, the DOJ noted, which would directly benefit from it. But it does not support the selection screen to select the default search engine in the browser. Firefox regularly reminds users that they have numerous search options – in the browser, “there are a thousand different search points” in the browser. “Choosing is a fundamental value to us, but context is important for us,” he added on the cross inspector. “The best way to choose is not always the screen of the choice.”
Judge Amit Mehta asked Mahemim if he agreed that this would benefit Mozilla if at least one company that matches Google’s standards and has the ability to monitor the searches. “If we were suddenly in this world,” Mahalim said, “It would be a world that would be better for Mozilla.”
