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Google has been feeding Firefox for the last few years and the latter's survival depended on the former's generosity. But the tide has turned and Danelle Dixon-Thayer from Mozilla said in an interview with CNET that its financial future is looking good. Earlier, Google paid money to Mozilla to allow Google search inside its Firefox search engine. But they Mozilla doesn't want to place all its eggs in a single basket. They have reportedly signed separate deals with Baidu, Yahoo and Yandex so that each one of them get prominence in China, US and Russia, respectively.

It is important for Firefox to exist and sustain, since it is the only company that has the influence that is not under the ownership of a major tech company. Chrome currently controls 50% of the browsing market in desktops, as per the recent figures published on StatCounter. Internet Explorer by Microsoft has suffered in terms of user-ship and influence but is still neck-to-neck with Firefox fighting for the second spot with 15% market share. The top 5 list of browsers include Apple's Safari, and the only other browser is Opera which holds only 2% of the market, reports Engadget.

Even though the Mozilla foundation is boasting that it is no longer depending on Google for its cash and are can say that their future secure after securing deals with other companies. However, the experts believe that it may be too soon make such tall claims. Yahoo is already struggling as a company to reinvent itself to compete with Google and what is worse is that some some search queries of Yahoo are already being routed to Google. Which means that Google will inadvertently gain access to to the Firefox users without even paying for it, says SiliconAngle.