Could Google crush Firefox in 2020?

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Being financially dependent on your biggest competitor is not a great business strategy. But that’s the situation Firefox-maker Mozilla has found itself in for the best part of 20 years.

Mozilla is fed by the crumbs from Google’s table. $430m of Mozilla’s $451m total revenue in 2018 came from “royalties”, the money search engines pay browser makers to send traffic their way. 91% of that royalty revenue…