Firefox would ‘go bust’ without Google money says boss

Firefox’s finance boss said the browser could go out of business if Google is prevented from paying to be the default search engine in browsers. It’s one of several proposals from the US Department of Justice aimed at ending Google’s monopoly in online search. Currently, Google pays Firefox’s owners Mozilla around $450m (£337m) a year to be the default search engine on the browser. Mozilla’s Chief Financial Officer Eric Muhlheim told a court that Firefox accounts for about 90 per cent of the com...