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As a non-google user, their chrome entanglement is what keeps me away. If MSFT does what you predict, I could see myself stepping away from Mozilla. More so bec
by nawtacawp 8y ago
As a non-google user, their chrome entanglement is what keeps me away. If MSFT does what you predict, I could see myself stepping away from Mozilla. More so because I like keeping the system as barebones as possible. So if there is no added benefit to installing Firefox — I won’t.
- sys_64738 8y agoFirefox will always be because I'm pretty sure I read Mozilla has half a billion dollars banked.
- slavik81 8y agoThey do, but that's about one year's worth of expenses for Mozilla.
- int_19h 8y agoThey might have to become slimmer, then. I doubt they had $1B/year expenses back when Firefox first started gaining on IE, after all.
- dao- 8y agoBrowsers were simpler and cheaper to develop back then. Mozilla's yearly budget today is roughly what Google spends on marketing for Chrome alone.
- mosselman 8y agoSources people, sources
- slavik81 8y agoI have a hard time believing that Chrome spends half a billion on advertising each year, given that Google can run its own ads for free. Perhaps that's a estimate for what an equivalent ad campaign would cost a third-party? I agree. A source for that would be useful. My source on Mozilla financials is the "Mozilla Foundation and Subsidiary: 2016 & 2017 Independent Auditors' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements" - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-2017-fs-short-form-final-0927.pdf https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...