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How is 550 million for a browser company not enough money? I mean seriously, how much more do they need? If I were a systems or c++ dev I'd start my own browser
by gremlinsinc 7y ago
How is 550 million for a browser company not enough money? I mean seriously, how much more do they need? If I were a systems or c++ dev I'd start my own browser, apparently it's very profitable to do so...
Maybe firefox should become more like microsoft and amazon and instead of monetizing the browser become a bigger competitor to google et al viz vi cloud services. They also could build products for developers to use for browser testing across multiple platforms, etc...
I don't see premium firefox taking off, but more competition with AWS, Azure, GCP is never a bad thing, or maybe they do something like Brave Browser and merge crypto with browsing though that seems tenuous compared to some other options.
- weinzierl 7y ago> How is 550 million for a browser company not enough money? This makes me wonder how much Google spends on Chrome?
- gshdg 7y agoSorry, this reminds me of people who go to Upwork to get a Facebook clone written in a weekend for $600. Writing a rendering engine for CSS and an interpreter for javascript are not trivial. Plus you have to make them secure. And deal with all sorts of edge cases. And that’s before we even get to the HTTP stack, cookie and local storage handling, etc. Let alone expected browser amenities like bookmarks and (secure) extensions. And then make it cross-platform, including supporting older versions of a bunch of operating systems, and all sorts of hardware configurations, several dozen languages, RTL input...
- jstewartmobile 7y ago$550,000,000 per year is a bit more than $600 on upwork.
- detaro 7y agoMozilla is not just "a browser company".
- lmorchard 7y ago> If I were a systems or c++ dev I'd start my own browser, apparently it's very profitable to do so... If it were that trivial, systems & C++ devs would already be doing it.