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600 million ($)? They've got ~$6000 (?) million from Google over the years. In a total distortion of reality Edge is the downfall of Firefox, not the reason th
by KingOfCoders 3y ago
600 million ($)?
They've got ~$6000 (?) million from Google over the years. In a total distortion of reality Edge is the downfall of Firefox, not the reason they spent $6000M for 3% market share because they made every mistake they could make. Everyone else would be belly up already, but $600M/year makes it hard to die.
The fact that new browsers are popping up left and right (like Floorp) should tell Mozilla there seems to be demand for something that isn't FF.
(Written from FF with Tab Center Reborn as a vertical tab)
- jqpabc123 3y ago...there seems to be demand for something that isn't FF. There is a demand for something that is really privacy focused. In other words, something that isn't directly connected to Google with a blatantly obvious conflict of interest.
- AlexandrB 3y agoBut all the other alternative browsers use Google's Blink rendering engine. How is that less associated with google?
- jqpabc123 3y agoHow is that less associated with google? Blink is an open source rendering engine. This allows alternative browsers to fork Blink/Chromium and strip out and remove any and all tracking, telemetry and data collection and produce a product that is privacy respecting by default. Mozilla could easily do the same with FF --- but they simply refuse to. Instead, every install of FF downloaded directly from Mozilla is unique. It comes with a unique identifier embedded along with lots of telemetry and data collection enabled by default --- including allowing Mozilla to install and run "studies" on your computer with no further consent required. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-a-unique-identifier/ https://www.ghacks.net/2022/03/17/each-firefox-download-has-...