Mozilla says it can now continue operations even without Google revenues (Photo : Twitter)
After several years of partnership, open source software developer Mozilla pronounces that it can now operate without revenues gained from Google.
Mozilla, the nonprofit organization responsible for popular web browser Firefox, made the proclamation on Wednesday, Modern Readers reported. It also added that it is now earning a substantial amount of revenue from the other search engine deals that it has made.
For the past several years, the search engine giant was one of Mozilla's main revenue generator. In the deal made between the two, Google served as default search engine for Firefox, with part of the earnings the company got being paid back to Mozilla. In 2014 alone, the last year of the contract, Mozilla gained an estimated $330 million from the agreement.
However, with the deal ending, Mozilla sought similar deals with other search engines. As of current, it has established agreements with China's Baidu and Russia's Yandex, with both being the default search engines for Firefox in their respective regions, The Next Web reported. In the United States, Yahoo has taken over as default.
On the other hand, Google still serves as the default search engine in Europe, but Mozilla's chief business and legal officer Denelle Dixon-Thayer clarified that they do not earn from the setup and has no official commercial relationship with the search provider at this point.
Mozilla chief financial officer Jim Cook expressed his confidence that the organization will perform better in the coming year. "We really look forward to displaying our results next year. 2015 will show our continued track record of really strong financial results," Cook said.
In the last couple of years, the organization has also branched out to other ventures, releasing its own operating system, Firefox OS, in 2013. Mozilla has also released mobile versions of its browser for both Android and IOS.
