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Despite the oodles of money Mozilla receives it manages Firefox poorly. Because of that its market share has been slipping for years. Soon it may become so insi
by hn_submit 2mo ago
Despite the oodles of money Mozilla receives it manages Firefox poorly. Because of that its market share has been slipping for years. Soon it may become so insignificant that Google will cut back funding to say, tens of millions a year.
And Mozilla keeps attempting to diversify its income stream by coming up with commercial services for which there are loads of alternatives, such as VPN. Why don't they just give up on that and spend all their money on Firefox? Hire someone with a deep technical background and a vision to take Firefox forward. As long as it doesn't involve A.I. I think it's worth a shot.
- maleldil 2mo agoAnd when the Google money runs out, what will they do?
- hn_submit 2mo agoThen they'll go bust. Having all those side projects won't make any difference in that sense because they can't even pay the rent. But it does make a difference in their focus on improving their main product: the Firefox web browser, which they are neglecting.