Was it also Google who decided that Mozilla had to spend a majority of their money on things other than Firefox development?
All they need is programmers to write the code for the browser and someone to manage the servers where the code, bugtracker, wiki and website are hosted, anything else is unnecessary and frivolous waste of resources. Get rid of the parasites.
(Disclaimer: I work on Firefox; I've seen the public financial statements.)
As soon as Mozilla started relying on Google's money, they were doomed. Now they are staffed by lots of well-paid US developers, and have to continue taking Google's deals to pay the wages.