Chrome's Challenges

Such deals could be just what Chrome needs to build its niche within the browser market. from online research firm shows Chrome's market share dropped another 0.04 percent in October, following a 0.22 percent fall . Chrome now commands only 0.74 percent of the browser market, compared to Internet Explorer at 71.27 percent, Mozilla's Firefox at 19.97 percent, Safari at 6.57 percent, and Opera at 0.75 percent.

Despite the fact that show 91 percent of Mozilla's revenue coming from its search deal with Google, its foundation chairman stated that she's not "particularly worried" about the competition with Chrome.

"We expect Chrome to have some amount of market share, but we don't expect it to balloon," she says.

Mozilla's CTO, however, acknowledges the fierce rivalry between the two products from an innovation standpoint. "It's really a neck and neck race," Brendan Eich . "There is a contest going on not only between Google and Mozilla but also Apple to have the fastest JavaScript engine, to have the best performance on various benchmarks."