<story><title>Firefox search update</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romanows</author><text>Seems like this is in support of &amp;quot;Firefox Suggest&amp;quot;, which seems to show sponsored links. I really don&amp;#x27;t like advertising so I really don&amp;#x27;t like going down that road.&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t they just take Google&amp;#x27;s yearly $600,000,000 payment and build the best browser &amp;quot;for the user&amp;quot; while also addressing technical debt and organizational issues so it can continue as an open source project if&amp;#x2F;when the money ever dries up?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aquova</author><text>I constantly see this take and I&amp;#x27;m afraid I don&amp;#x27;t agree with it. Firefox is continuing to lose market share, and I think it&amp;#x27;s less anything they&amp;#x27;re doing and due simply to the fact that Google is a household name while Mozilla is not. When the user is already using a Google phone, email, search, maps, drive, and document editor, it follows to also use their browser. Simply being a solid browser isn&amp;#x27;t enough to motivate people to switch away. So I think they should try out some new interesting ideas in the hope that some of them take off. Now, I don&amp;#x27;t think this is the feature to do that, but I won&amp;#x27;t criticize them for trying.</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox search update</title><url>https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-search-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>romanows</author><text>Seems like this is in support of &amp;quot;Firefox Suggest&amp;quot;, which seems to show sponsored links. I really don&amp;#x27;t like advertising so I really don&amp;#x27;t like going down that road.&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t they just take Google&amp;#x27;s yearly $600,000,000 payment and build the best browser &amp;quot;for the user&amp;quot; while also addressing technical debt and organizational issues so it can continue as an open source project if&amp;#x2F;when the money ever dries up?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pquki4</author><text>&amp;gt; Can&amp;#x27;t they just take Google&amp;#x27;s yearly $600,000,000 payment&lt;p&gt;They can do that for as long as Google is willing to pay. Without additional revenue stream, the day Google decides to cut cost and stop sponsoring Mozilla, that&amp;#x27;s the day Firefox will run into big trouble. Any additional revenue stream is going to help.&lt;p&gt;I am no CEO but that seems very clear to me.</text></comment>