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Redistribute the (potential) DOJ judgement to Firefox with no preconditions.

• anotherhue 2y ago
  Literally anything else would be preferable. A NIST competition, open source grants, IE6 Remastered edition... Mozilla exists to hinder the development of other browsers. They're the well financed vote spoiler. IIRC the CEO makes many millions a year while laying off browser developers.
  • horsawlarway 2y ago
    I will second this opinion. Mozilla has strongly displayed a willingness to be "the other side of the coin" to Google's browser monopoly. They go hand in hand. IMO poster above is correct - they exist mostly as a scapegoat Google can point to in order to avoid monopoly claims (And Google is paying Mozilla more than 80% of their revenue to prop them up in this act). Mozilla markets themselves as the "privacy focused alternative" but in reality I find that marketing mostly whitewash. Please do pretty much anything else instead of giving this money to Mozilla.
  • flufluflufluffy 2y ago
    > Mozilla exists to hinder the development of other browsers. ???? They’re sure doing a bad job of that… providing us with pretty much the internet’s most extensive and highest quality documentation of html/css/JavaScript & web apis, providing us with a non-WebKit/blink engine (& the only major browser not using those)…
• tivert 2y ago
  > Redistribute the (potential) DOJ judgement to Firefox with no preconditions. If the money is distributed to Firefox, the precondition that it be spent on browser development is an absolute must. It's pretty scandalous that they take donations but spend the money on pretty much everything except funding Firefox development, which is almost certainly the only reason people donated it in the first place. No one really cares about any of the other things they do, especially not compared to the browser itself.