When I heard the news, my first though was a mix of "Oh. oh no..", "yay! no vendor-lock-in", and "OH, NO."

My expectation for the future is that a crowd fundraiser like on Wikipedia (does anyone remember those?) will be on the way for Mozilla... there is no way they can survive a 80% drop in the budget gracefully.

Penalize Google many much monies and use some of those to endow a trust that gives yearly funding distributions.

Simple.

I suppose it's time to fork Firefox. Can call the fork "Netscape Navigator". Ya, I think that has a nice ring to it.

well then they can start resetting duckduckgo as the default search engine

popcorns

If think of it then there be no competition any more even by a little. If Google Decide to give up on chrome and make there own close Source web engine. Nothing really stopping them as they control the web and search even taking then to count not going make them support the chrome web engine. Firefox just uphill battle even more now as user can't give up ther chrome habits and the forks.