The executive says Firefox may be governed without Google’s search deal.

Firefox can be placed from work if a court is implemented on all the proposals of the Ministry of Justice to restrict the Google Monopoly, an executive official of the browser owner Mozilla witnessed on Friday. “It is very frightening,” said Mozilla, financial manager Erik Mallheim.

The Ministry of Justice wants to prevent Google from paying to be the virtual search engine in third -party browsers including Firefox, between A. Long list of other proposals Including the forced sale of the Google Chrome special browser and requires it to publish the search results for competitors. The court has already ruled this Google has an illegal monopoly in researchThanks to the exclusion deals that make the virtual engine on browsers and phones, and depriving the competitors of places to distribute search engines and expansion. But while Firefox – who is witnessing the financial manager that Google is offered its defense – is competing directly with Chrome, he warns that the loss of profitable virtual payments from Google may threaten its existence.

Firefox constitutes about 90 percent of Mozilla revenues, according to Molheim, the head of financing for the organization’s arm, which in turn helps to finance the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. He added that about 85 percent of these revenues come from a deal with Google.

The loss of these revenues at the same time means that Mozilla will have to “large discounts throughout the company”, as Moghailheim witnessed, and warned of a “downtown cycle” that could occur if the company is forced to expand the scope of product engineering investments in Firefox, making it less attractive to users. He said this type of vortex can “put Firefox out of work.” This may also mean less money for non -profit efforts such as Open source web tools And evaluate how Artificial intelligence can help fight climate change.

Ironically, it seems that Molhaim indicates that it can enhance the dominance of the market that the court seeks to treat. He said that the Firefox’s primary browser engine is “the only browser engine that is not held by Big Tech but rather non -profit.” The other two are open source Chromium from Google and Webkit from Apple. MUZILla Gecko has developed to avoid fear that Microsoft will control all the protocols on the Internet, witness the Muhlheim, and the creation of Gecko helped ensure that different browsers are operating, so access to the web will not be controlled by one company. (Unlike Many other companies She appeared in the Google experience, Firefox did not express her interest in buying Chrome.)

Mallheim says that Google’s revenue replacement is not as easy as a deal with another search engine provider or an exclusive deal with Google. Mozilla talked with Microsoft about the possibility of Bing on the virtual place, but Muhlheim warns that Google is able to provide bid on the contract, the share of revenue is likely to negotiate negotiating. Moreover, Mozilla found that Bing does not indicate traffic efficiently as Google does today.

In a presentation in December 2024 of the Mosella Council that was presented in the court, the company warned that the loss of Google payments represents a “great threat to survive Mozilla with a limited ability to mitigate.” From 2021 to 2022, the company conducted a study to find out what will happen if it replaced the virtual search engines for Firefox users quietly from Google to Bing, and found that users who turned into Bing have achieved lower revenue for Mozilla – the discovery of Muhlheim shows what might happen if all its users are converted to Bing.

Mozilla has also tried previously to switch virtual search engines for users, and things haven’t been going well. Between 2014 and 2017, the company Yahoo virtual on her browserHe found that people hate experience to the point that they turned into another browser.

If other Ministry of Justice’s proposals are working as they hope, they will theoretically create many quality search engines that can compete to locate Firefox default, and take on the revenue share currently pay by Google. But Muhlheim says this is likely to take so long that Mozilla will have to make significant costs and all strategy changes while “waiting for a virtual future that happened.” Meanwhile, he said: “We will really struggle to survive.”

Upon interrogation by the Ministry of Justice, the Melheheim admitted that it is better not to rely on one agent of the vast majority of its revenues, regardless of the court ruling in this case. He agreed that another browser company, Opera, has already managed to earn more money from the browser ads more than the search deals. But although this may be a possible way to diversify Firefox revenues, the increase in this work in Firefox may seem different, partly due to the approach to maintaining the privacy required by products.

Mozilla has Broked selection screens for browsers On phones and desktop computers, the Ministry of Justice has noticed something that you would benefit from directly. But it does not support the selection screen for users to determine a virtual search engine in a browser. Melheim said that Firefox regularly states that they have multiple search options – “there are a thousand different searches” in the browser, as witnessed. “The choice is an essential value for us, but the context is important,” he added. “The best way to access the selection is not always the selection screen.”

Judge Amit Mihita Mulheim asked whether he agreed that he would benefit Mozilla if there is at least another company that corresponds to Google’s quality and its ability to achieve income from searches. “If we are suddenly in this world,” said Himheim, “This will be a better world for Mozilla.”