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Imagine how powerful a paid browser could become on this front. As people slowly become more privacy-aware this might be feasible.
by theseatoms 7y ago
Imagine how powerful a paid browser could become on this front. As people slowly become more privacy-aware this might be feasible.
- dahfizz 7y agoI have a hard time believing a paid browser would ever get big. People just do not care enough.
- packet_nerd 7y agoI care and would pay. Same with websites. especially if the experience was easy, scalable, and protected my privacy and anonymity.
- Aeolun 7y agoIf Jetbrains were to build a browser on top of firefox with a similar level of features to their IDE’s, I would absolutely pay for that. Developer tools is already invaluable, but there’s no reason it cannot be better.
- sroussey 7y agoVery few people pay/donate, and very few did for Firebug back in the day.
- pluma 7y agoOpera started as a paid browser and nearly went bankrupt. They even had ads on the free version. Barely anyone paid for it and the ads killed adoption. Heck, even Netscape Navigator started out as shareware. It was "personal use only" but most commercial users never bought a license. It was eventually defeated by Microsoft Internet Explorer, which was free for commercial use even before it shipped with the OS. If there is any chance someone will attempt a paid browser again, it will most definitely be based on Chromium (or maybe Firefox) rather than written from scratch and no website will make any effort to test on it (just like barely anyone ever tested on Opera).
- meruru 7y agoYou already can donate to Mozilla: https://donate.mozilla.org https://donate.mozilla.org
- Karunamon 7y agoI'd rather buy a browser as a company's primary product, not donate to Mozilla which makes a browser and does many other things, many of which I disagree with and would rather not fund.
- ogre_codes 7y agoI'm confused here. Seems to me that if you want these kind of features in a browser you want exactly what funds. Also, even if you paid for software with these features, it's likely a good portion of the money you pay will also go towards things you disagree with as well.
- _hl_ 7y agoCould you give some examples of things they do that you disagree with? I can't really think of any controversial non-firefox things they've done.
- fxbl0i 7y agoControversial != useless. I don't like they wasted money on Firefox OS or Persona; I don't want to donate to them if my money goes there instead of to Firefox. In fact, why not let us decide where exactly our money will go if we donate?