Reading a post on Om Malik’s blog, it was amazing to hear how much browser can earn from referral to search engines such google.

Mozilla Foundation, the folks behind Firefox, brings in about $30 million a year, according to Tribe-founder Mark Pincus. Even deals with Amazon.com bring in big money for Mozilla. (I wonder how much Apple gets paid by Google for Safari tenancy?) This clearly is turning out to be quite a niche for browser makers.

So I can understand they prefer to loose $3.9 million for a possible $30 million made by mozilla. If we know that opera is making over $28 million in sales.