"I'd pay good money..." Sorry, Google pays more. :) As much as you would like to be, you are not Mozilla's customer. You are, as they say, a "product". The

"I'd pay good money..." Sorry, Google pays more. :) As much as you would like to be, you are not Mozilla's customer. You are, as they say, a "product". The subject of an ongoing marketing study. There are people willing to pay for the results of that study, and they are willing and able to pay much more than you will ever pay for Mozilla's open source software or use of its servers to store your personal data (email, calendar, files, etc.). We are told that Mozilla has to keep pace with Chrome (because ..., and that's because ....), and the only way they believe they can do that is to take money from Google. Mozilla's CEO and employees are far too expensive for their salaries to ever be paid by end users.