Mozilla's Google Deal Renewed as Firefox 9 is Released

The final Firefox release of 2011 is being released today, providing users with a faster experience on desktops, smartphones and tablets. Mozilla also used the occasion to officially announce that they have renewed a deal with Google for search revenues.
Mozilla derives the majority of its revenues from a multi-year search deal with Google that expired last month. The new deal will extend the deal by another three years. Full terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed.
Firefox 9 includes a number of new features that designed to make the browser faster. One of these features is the Type Inference capability.
"Type inference is a new javascript system and the goal is to analyze variables," Gavin Sharp, Firefox engineer told