JAKARTA Mozilla executive, owner of Firefox, made a surprising statement at the Google antitrust hearing. The company said it could be destroyed if it did not strike an agreement with Google.
Mozilla's CFO, Eric Muhlheim, quoted from The Verge, said that Firefox could go bankrupt if Google was forced to comply with all proposed US Department of Justice (DOJ). According to him, limiting Google's search monopoly is 'very scary'.
There are many proposals submitted by DOJ to the court and one of the proposals that Muhlheim does not agree with is the loss of search engine payments to third-party browsers. The reason is, the payment for the operation of this search engine benefits the platform.
As Head of Finance for the nonprofit organization Mozilla, Muhlheim explained that Firefox accounts for about 90 percent of Mozilla's revenue. Meanwhile, 85 percent of them came from the company's deal with Google.
Therefore, losing payments from Google would be a huge blow to Mozilla. If this happens, the company will cut "significant cuts" across the section. Unfortunately, finding a replacement fee from Google is not easy to do.
Muhlheim said that making deals with other search engine providers was difficult to do. In fact, Mozilla has discussed with Microsoft about the innate use of Bing, but Muhlheim highlighted his earnings.
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To maintain the company's position, Mozilla must reduce revenue sharing. This is also supported by the monetization of Bing traffic which is considered not as good as Google Search. Mozilla has been observing the impact of Bing and Search for years.
In 2021 to 2022, Mozilla conducted a study on enabling replacement to Bing. The results are in accordance with Muhlheim's current statement, namely the company's revenue which is lower.
During 2014 to 2017, Mozilla also had time to use Yahoo, but the user's response was not so good. Therefore, Firefox is still dependent on Google's agreement to date to keep Mozilla.
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