Mozilla and Google Sign New Agreement for Default Search in Firefox ⇥

This is interesting. Google has their own browser which recently overtook Firefox in market share. Also of note is the confidentiality of this deal. It’s standard business practice, but both Mozilla and Google profess to being open and transparent.

Yajoe over at Hacker News analysed Mozilla’s 2010 audit and dug up some specifics on the deal, including this juicy nugget:

Mozilla’s burn rate was 62 million, which means Google paid for the entire Mozilla development effort in 2010.