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		swang on Oct 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox fixes save gigabytes of memory on image-he... While Firefox isn't an ad company, don't they get most of their revenues from Google's placement as the default search engine in Firefox?

jmathai on Oct 1, 2013 | [–]

They can accept the revenue from Google without compromising their integrity to the user.

If it wasn't Google then it'd be Microsoft. Doesn't really matter besides the fact that it helps them fund the development of their initiatives.

riquito on Oct 1, 2013 | [–]

Do they ever make decisions just to help Google?

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