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Is Mozilla the one to suffer the consequences of Google's antitrust defeat?

A hot potato: Mozilla has a close relationship with Google, as most of Firefox's revenue comes from the agreement keeping Google as the browser's default search engine. However, the search giant is now officially a monopoly, and a future court decision could have an unprecedented impact on Mozilla's ability to keep things "business as usual."
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Google is officially a monopoly: Company loses massive DOJ antitrust trial over search engine agreements

Google paid over $21 billion in 2021 to make its search engine the default on various devices and browsers
What just happened? The US Department of Justice's nearly year-long case against Google over its dominance in the search engine market has reached a dramatic end. The case could drastically alter how numerous devices and web browsers choose their default search engines, though the full extent of the impending effects remains unclear.
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Google search "Web" filter takes users back to 10 blue links – no AI, no BS

In context: Google has drawn rising criticism over the added features of its search engine in recent years. As the company introduces fully AI-generated summaries of search results, it has also added a mode that strips those results down to simple web links. Some users might appreciate the gesture, but others complain that obtaining straightforward text results, like in the early days of Google, now requires extra clicks.