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Okay you've eliminated your browser engine building cost by switching Firefox to Chromium. Now how do you make profit off of Chromium? My point is that there w
by yepthatsreality 6y ago
Okay you've eliminated your browser engine building cost by switching Firefox to Chromium. Now how do you make profit off of Chromium?
My point is that there was no profit model around Firefox so switching engines is negligible. The cost of building said engine is also going to be negligible to the profit returned from the browser. In Google's case this is true. In Mozilla's case they have no model and never had one to subsidize that cost (other than Google search money). Changing base engines turns Firefox into a hobby project managed by a FOSS rather than a serious competing project in the browser-verse.