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Mozilla has a revenue stream of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Most of it comes from partnerships with the search engines. Non-profit just means that m

Mozilla has a revenue stream of hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Most of it comes from partnerships with the search engines. Non-profit just means that making money is not their primary goal but it is one the important goals in order to make them self sufficient and enable them to work towards their true goals. http://download.cnet.com/blog/download-blog/whats-firefox-worth-to-google-nearly-1-billion/ http://download.cnet.com/blog/download-blog/whats-firefox-wo...

Teever 10y ago
This is something that has bewildered me -- Where does all that money go!? I understand it is not cheap to hire developers but it just seems really weird that the Mozilla foundation has had over a billion dollars flow through it and all they have to show for it is a web browser (and other software).
- asadotzler 10y ago
  The overwhelming majority of revenue coming into Mozilla goes to paying staff. Mozilla has just over 1,000 employees.
  - zo1 10y ago
    To continue the GP's point... What do all those employees do?
    - tedunangst 10y ago
      Add code to Firefox.
      - forgotpwtomain 10y ago
        > Add code to Firefox. They just seem to be not very good at it, because from 40 -> 50 - memory usage is much worse than previous versions (Yes, I know switching to the MP model has to do with it, but if your architectural changes hurt usability for security I consider that quite poor), the developer tools are still trash, and performance is still worse than chrome.
        mintplant 10y ago
        > the developer tools are still trash I quite like the Firefox devtools, but you may be happy to know that brand-new, rewritten devtools are currently coming down the pipeline. There's also WebReplay, a time-traveling debugger for JS and the rest of the browser, which is a bit longer off but is absolutely amazing (I've seen a demonstration): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/WebReplay https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
        pcwalton 10y ago
        > Yes, I know switching to the MP model has to do with it, but if your architectural changes hurt usability for security I consider that quite poor Since you consider that "quite poor", can you share your proposed method for doing multiprocess without regressing memory usage?
      - tobias3 10y ago
        You might be right. According to openhub Firefox had 1121 contributors last year. Compared to that Chromium had 1919 contributors. Not all of them work for Mozilla and Google respectively and not all employees commit to the code base...
- owaislone 10y ago
  Salaries, meetups, conferences, equipment, servers, cloud infrastructure, taxes, employee benefits, grants to open source projects

Teever 10y ago

This is something that has bewildered me -- Where does all that money go!? I understand it is not cheap to hire developers but it just seems really weird that the Mozilla foundation has had over a billion dollars flow through it and all they have to show for it is a web browser (and other software).

asadotzler 10y ago
The overwhelming majority of revenue coming into Mozilla goes to paying staff. Mozilla has just over 1,000 employees.
- zo1 10y ago
  To continue the GP's point... What do all those employees do?
  - tedunangst 10y ago
    Add code to Firefox.
    - forgotpwtomain 10y ago
      > Add code to Firefox. They just seem to be not very good at it, because from 40 -> 50 - memory usage is much worse than previous versions (Yes, I know switching to the MP model has to do with it, but if your architectural changes hurt usability for security I consider that quite poor), the developer tools are still trash, and performance is still worse than chrome.
      - mintplant 10y ago
        > the developer tools are still trash I quite like the Firefox devtools, but you may be happy to know that brand-new, rewritten devtools are currently coming down the pipeline. There's also WebReplay, a time-traveling debugger for JS and the rest of the browser, which is a bit longer off but is absolutely amazing (I've seen a demonstration): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/WebReplay https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
      - pcwalton 10y ago
        > Yes, I know switching to the MP model has to do with it, but if your architectural changes hurt usability for security I consider that quite poor Since you consider that "quite poor", can you share your proposed method for doing multiprocess without regressing memory usage?
    - tobias3 10y ago
      You might be right. According to openhub Firefox had 1121 contributors last year. Compared to that Chromium had 1919 contributors. Not all of them work for Mozilla and Google respectively and not all employees commit to the code base...
owaislone 10y ago
Salaries, meetups, conferences, equipment, servers, cloud infrastructure, taxes, employee benefits, grants to open source projects