Browser Wars in 2011:The Making of Firefox Numbers

Posted on December 22, 2011 Updated on May 19, 2014

In 2011 Google renewed its agreement with Mozilla, ensuring the nonprofit’s popular browser wouldn’t lose 84% of its revenue and thus face the ominous fate that some predicted and others decried as unrealistic.The browser was knocked from its #2 slot behind Internet Explorer, though, at least according to one company’s stats. The culprit? Google’s Chrome, a browser half Firefox’s age.