Our revenue share deal on search drove 90% of Mozillas income, he tweeted.
When Chrome launched things got complicated, but not in the way you might expect.
In fact, the story we kept hearing was, Were on the same side.
We want the same things, the former Mozilla exec said.
I think our friends inside Google genuinely believed that.
At the individual level, their engineers cared about most of the same things we did.
Their product and design folks made many decisions very similarly, and we learned from watching each other.
But Google as a whole is very different than individual googlers.
Google Chrome ads started appearing next to Firefox search terms.
Gmail & [Google] Docs started to experience selective performance issues and bugs on Firefox.
Demo sites would falsely block Firefox as incompatible, he said.
All of this is stuff youre allowed to do to compete, of course.
But we were still a search partner, so wed say hey what gives?
And every time, theyd say, oops.
Well fix it in the next push in 2 weeks.
Well fix it soon.
We want the same things.
Were on the same team.
There were dozens of oopses.
I think they were running out the clock.
We lost users during every oops.
And we spent effort and frustration every clock tick on that instead of improving our product.
Source:Jonathan Nightingale (Twitter)
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