Mozilla won't make a browser for GoogleNovember 10, 2004 Not only has Google's top executives denied the company is developing a Web browser, but the Mozilla Foundation recently has denied speculation that it is working with the search engine. In an interview with eWEEK.com ahead of Tuesday's Firefox launch, Mozilla President Mitchell Baker denied rumors that the Mountain View, Calif., foundation was working with Google on a browser based on Firefox or its Gecko rendering engine. "The code base is open for companies to do what they wish to do, but we're not working with Google on a special browser," Baker said. "We are not working on a Google browser."
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 As an open-source project, Mozilla's code base is available to other organizations and companies for building browsers and Web-based applications. Most notably, America Online Inc.'s Netscape Communications released its Netscape 7.2 browser based on Mozilla's underlying technology. Though it is possible for Google to take the same development approach, Google executives have downplayed reports of a forthcoming browser. According to a report in the Financial Times in late October, Google CEO Eric Schmidt refuted browser rumors. "We are not building a browser," Schmidt said in the report. A Google spokesman on Tuesday corroborated the accuracy of Schmidt's statement but declined to discuss the browser speculation further. Much of the speculation about a Google browser arose because of recent Google hires with browser expertise and because Google has registered the domain name gbrowser.com. Curious eyes turned to Mozilla after Google hosted a Mozilla developer day and after some Mozilla bug reports made reference to Google. Mozilla is planning to refresh its overall application development platform, which includes Gecko and its XUL (XML User Interface Language) for building user interfaces, Mitchell said. Mozilla plans to target the platform to developers wanting to create Web-based applications, which might use browsing capabilities. "We're not thinking…along the lines of co-branded browsers or re-branded browsers so much as this broader set of technology for Web-related applications," Mitchell said, when asked about co-branded browsers. While a co-browser might not be coming from Google and Mozilla, the two organizations have grown a bit closer with the release of Firefox 1.0. In the release, Mozilla changed the default home page to a Firefox-branded version of Google's search page that appears to be hosted at google.com. Google also is the default Web-search provider in Firefox's search toolbar, though users can choose to switch the default or add multiple search providers such as Yahoo Inc. "Given the importance of search, we decided to add search functionality to the start page itself," Baker wrote in her Weblog on Monday. "Google has long been recognized as a leader in search experience and so we chose Google."
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 Baker mentioned that Mozilla could receive additional funding from Firefox's integrate search features but did not elaborate on how that would occur. Mozilla officials could not be reached to explain the funding. But major search engines such as Google and Yahoo also operate search-based advertising programs and share revenues with partner sites that drive clicks to sponsored-link ads. "We expect to see some funds come to the Foundation as a result of our integrated search," Baker wrote. "We'll use any funds that result to help support the Mozilla Foundation's non-profit operations." Source: eWeek 
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