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submitted 1 year ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

They are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can't really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?

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[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.

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[–] doodledup@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You can't finance a massive project like that with donations. This isn't like Signal or some small project like that. Firefox is MASSIVE.

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they're mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.

I'd really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.

I don't think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.

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