They were doing fine until Chrome ate up all the market share. Google shouldn't have been allowed to do that. It's very anti-competitive for them to have a browser that defaults to Google search and disables plugins that support adblocking. Google is destroying Mozilla. Their monopoly is making the web worse.
Like, 10+ years ago...?
> Google is destroying Mozilla. Their monopoly is making the web worse.
What in the heck are you talking about. Google doesn't directly make money from Chrome - it's free!
In fact, Mozilla's bills are being paid in large by Google paying for them to use google.com as the default browser.
Mozilla has always struggled to make money. This is not some new phenomenon with the company, and certainly is not because of Google making a good browser.
> Google shouldn't have been allowed to do that. It's very anti-competitive for them to have a browser that defaults to Google search and disables plugins that support adblocking.
I mean... what? They shouldn't have been allowed to do that... because why? Because a browser defaults to a specific search engine?
C'mon now. Google built a great browser that users loved, and they flocked to it. It was faster than all the competitors at the time - including firefox - and had much better word-of-mouth traction. Firefox always had a "techie expert" connotation back in the day, and it bit them in the butt when it came to the average joe deciding which browser to use.
End of story.
There's no sinister anti-competition plot here. For heaven's sake, Google pays loads of Mozilla's bills, and collaborates with them on loooooads of projects!