You make it sound like Ffx is paid to be googles lackey- they're not, they're paid to make google the default engine. Apple gets paid billions every year to do this for safari on iOS. This directly makes google a lot of money so its mutually beneficial.

I would like a browser with a big team behind it and a stable reliable source of income. Google paying for everything is risky but I don't think its as big a corrupting influence as you seem to believe.