Ending a month of speculation, Google has renewed its search exclusivity deal with Mozilla, who has long featured Google as the default browser on its Firefox Web browser.
When the deal expired in November, it gave rise to speculation that Google might not renew it, which would deprive Firefox of about 84% of its annual revenue. That possibility seemed bolstered by the fact that Google’s Chrome was said to have recently ousted Firefox as the number two browser on the market. An end to the deal could have put the future of Firefox in jeopardy, although some thought the ominous predictions were overblown.
Sees that Google (and probably others too) see a future for Firefox. I was quite disappointed with the browser over the last year, but with the new 9.0 release it´s working perfect.
I´m using Firefox together with the Instantfox add-on (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/instantfox/?src=sblog) to search the web, and finally the speed is on par with chrome.