Your point being? From your own post:

“We develop our product and technical direction as part of an open process unrelated to the search relationship with Google. We talk to Google about the parts of the product that offer Google services (i.e., the Firefox Start Page) and the services they provide, like anti-phishing. Otherwise Google does not have any special relationship to Mozilla project activities.”

Sure, in 2008. But what about now?

It's still the case now, but see gcp's point above for why it's not important.