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Mozilla CEO: Premium version of Firefox coming this fall
- duxup 7y agoI hadn't thought of supporting Mozilla, but if they had a reasonable cost premium service... I probably would. It really wouldn't so much matter what the cost to benefit is to me provided the price was reasonable.
- pvinis 7y agoI'm looking forward to seeing what these extra features will be. It would be weird if it's something that FF users like currently, like the ability to go in about:config for example. It would also be weird if it's things that current users don't use, like pocket. I want to get the subscription, but I hope the price and the perks are good and worth it, and at the same time not making it terrible to the free tier. Imagine they choose something that most people want but don't want to pay, and in the end FF loses users. I don't even want to think about it.
- Freak_NL 7y agoThey're not likely to abandon the free software aspect of Firefox. I can't imagine anyone at Mozilla considering turning a FOSS browser into a freemium proprietary product; for one, that would be a very efficient way to kill off their brand and community in one stroke. What is being hinted at is providing services like VPN and secure storage in the cloud from within the Firefox browser. Services that have a real cost in terms of bandwidth and storage.
- duxup 7y agoThey mention a VPN, some storage, both those I think are outside of current features.
- newscracker 7y agoAlready discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20145344 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20145344