Firefox will probably get more this year.
They had a long term deal.
Re:HP Kicks webOS To The Kerb
by kermitthehermit on Monday December 12, 2011 @01:07PM
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I hate people who believe and / or promote that meme with a passion.
If the deal with Google dies for Mozilla, I will reduce my use of Google's search services and use other search engines whenever possible.
I strongly believe people who say they use Chrome "because it's better than Firefox" have no clue what they're talking about. They usually have no idea and don't care about not being tracked, nor about not having their browser secured with addons such as adblock plus, noscript and others.
Firefox still has >25% browser share[1]. That gives them de-facto control of the searches from a large number of of them (excluding the people who change their default search engine).
If Mozilla can't get >$100 million a year form Google with 25% of the world's deployed browsers then I'm going to start a search engine and pull an Lycos[2].
[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/
[2] I think it was Lycos. One of the early search engines bid money they didn't have to get a placement on the Netscape search engine, and then went and got funding based on the placement.