If Google wanted to support open standards and reduce reliance on IE, they wouldn't have targeted Firefox customers with Chrome ads on YouTube and Google aggressively.

Now, Firefox and Safari will protect customers against tracking (measures against third-party cookies) while Chrome won't do anything -- because that's where the cash is.

In fact they did contribute to Firefox by paying engineers like Ben Goodger and Seth Spitzer, but clearly they weren't happy with that level of control. Goodger was lead developer for Firefox. They pulled all those people to work on Chrome instead, a step that immediately hurt Mozilla.