The very mention of a then-controversial decision to make Microsoft's Internet Explorer Webbrowser the defaultbrowser on Apple computers drew hisses of dissent from the audience.
Google funnels tens of millions dollars to Mozilla in exchange getting for a valuable spot on the default home page of the browser preferred by the most avid Web surfers and developers.
Tests were performed used a Macintosh computer running Apple's operating system (OSX Lion) and Webbrowser (Safari version 5.1.3) with the default settings enabled.
Another Google-dodging feature in the new browser: Highlighting a street address on a Web page launches a map, with the default set to Microsoft's Live Maps (though you can change this default to Google Maps).