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It's not that they have huge userbase lately, so they could afford to lose it any further.
by vetinari 7y ago
It's not that they have huge userbase lately, so they could afford to lose it any further.
- JohnBooty 7y agoWhat would you consider a huge userbase? Firefox has 230 million monthly users, using FF for an average of over 5 hours per day. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
- vetinari 7y agoGiven that Linux has 2% desktop market share (let's be generous) and Firefox has 10% (let's be generous the same way), that would mean that Linux has potential to be 20% of Firefox users. Is that something you are going to ignore? Many executives would sell their families for less opportunity.
- pjmlp 7y agoThe big difference is that those executives would be getting money out of those 20% customer base. I seriously doubt that those 20% Firefox users even consider doing a $1 donation.
- zaphirplane 7y agoFirefox makes money from the install base via the search engine default setting. Fairly sure more so than donations
- pjmlp 7y agoMight be, is there any official numbers? After all plenty also switch to other search engines.
- michaelmrose 7y agoAre you sure? I bet 99% just leave it configured to use google.