I’m not sure Firefox brings on this list. Google finances Mozilla’s operation to the time of $420M a year. It’s not profit, but it’s also not a the same as the others.
Almost certainly not. All the offshoots from Mozilla’s tech rely first and foremost on Mozilla’s production of the foundational software, which eats up a significant portion of their roughly $500M/yr operational costs. The heavy development cost of modern browsers is why everything is either Chromium or Gecko-based.
That said, Mozilla will be around as long as Chromium continues to dominate the market. Google literally funds Mozilla because it’s cheaper to prop up a competitor than it is to be sued by the government for monopolistic practices (check out 1998 decision against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows).
And the Blender foundation gets yearly donations from tech giants like Epic, NVidia, Unity, Google and even car makers like BMW and Volkswagen. Even Adobe, their competitor, sponsors them.
It’s still a not-for-profit same with Mozilla. Doesn’t matter who funds them or how much they get in funding.
I’m not sure Firefox brings on this list. Google finances Mozilla’s operation to the time of $420M a year. It’s not profit, but it’s also not a the same as the others.
It’s an easy paycheck for allowing Google as the default search setting. If Microsoft paid as much we would be saying the same arguments about Bing.
If you have better ideas for financing firefox, go ahead :)
First of all, I’d get rid of a CEO that wants to be paid millions of dollars a year.
Do what they did with Thunderbird. https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving-our-2022-financial-report/
You don’t and cannot finance Firefox. Mozilla gets all the money. I would love a Firefox subscription, but the CEO grabs all the millions.
If you have better ideas…
because Google wants to finance anything they can get their damn search engine into.
That being said, there is ladybird on the horizon, a browser being built from scratch, not based on either Gecko or Webkit.
There’s also Servo but it’s been in the works for a long time.
Servo is way way way ahead and isn’t being built by fascist white supremacist and sympathizers.
hmm…if Firefox dies, can LibreWolf continue? 🤔
Almost certainly not. All the offshoots from Mozilla’s tech rely first and foremost on Mozilla’s production of the foundational software, which eats up a significant portion of their roughly $500M/yr operational costs. The heavy development cost of modern browsers is why everything is either Chromium or Gecko-based.
That said, Mozilla will be around as long as Chromium continues to dominate the market. Google literally funds Mozilla because it’s cheaper to prop up a competitor than it is to be sued by the government for monopolistic practices (check out 1998 decision against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows).
Doubtful. Librewolf still uses Firefox as base.
Google funds them so their is “competition” in the browser space, to ward of antitrust lawsuits
And the Blender foundation gets yearly donations from tech giants like Epic, NVidia, Unity, Google and even car makers like BMW and Volkswagen. Even Adobe, their competitor, sponsors them.
It’s still a not-for-profit same with Mozilla. Doesn’t matter who funds them or how much they get in funding.