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I too want to see this work, but I'm worried about Google's response. What if this takes off? Seeing as how right now, how much of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google, if Firefox OS takes off I would think it needs to take off hard in the case that Google decides to maneuver against them by toying with their main artery that is Firefox's default search engine. I don't know.

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If Google doesn't pay Mozilla, Yahoo or Microsoft will. Furthermore, the reason Google pays so much money to Mozilla is not out of goodwill, but for all the revenue that Google makes off of the traffic the search bar generates. Google not paying Mozilla to be the default search provider would be cutting off its nose to spite its face.

Nope. Google does not make money from Android. And with js apps inserting google ads into the app will be trivial. So no harm for them there.

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