Currently, Google pays Firefox’s bill by having them set their default search engine to Google.

This will no longer be when Chrome is in the hands of another party. DOJ is currently advocating for this forced sellout.

So will Firefox be no more after that?

  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    10 hours ago

    The opposite. Google won’t be able to leverage chrome to drive website design and Internet policy anymore and it’ll give smaller companies an opportunity to get a better foothold in the market. That’s the whole point in breaking them off from Google in the first place.

    • PlexSheep@infosec.pub
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Well, depends on who buys it and what happens to Chromium, the open source thing that is not chrome.