Google Renews Firefox deal,will remain default search engine in firefox web browser for 3 more years

Google has renewed a deal  with Firefox to remain as a default search engine giving it a 3 years lifeline within the browser of Mozilla. The agreement came despite earlier prediction by analyst that it would back out of the deal as to make it's own web browser "Chrome" more market dominant. Mozilla, a non-profit organization has said that " it negotiated a significant and mutually beneficial revenue agreement" with Google for the next three years.

Mozilla heavily relies on the income generated from the search partnership. Under the next three year agreement Google will remain default search engine within the browser for millions of Firefox users worldwide. In 2010 Mozilla had said that it had generated $121.1 million income from agreement with Google, Microsoft and other search engines of which about 85% was from google.

Google Chrome remains the second most used web browser behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer .Firefox had earlier been on the second of the chart.