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[–] 71 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (14 children)

I'm not sure Firefox belongs on this list. Google finances Mozilla's operation to the tune of $420M a year. It's not for-profit, but it's also not the same as the others.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    If you have better ideas for financing firefox, go ahead :)

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Google wants to finance anything they can get their damn search engine into, that's not entirely the fault of Firefox. I still use a firefox-based browser, but only for now.

    There is ladybird on the horizon, a browser being built from scratch, not based on either Gecko or Webkit.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    hmm.....if Firefox dies, can LibreWolf continue? πŸ€”

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    Almost certainly not. All the offshoots from Mozilla's tech rely first and foremost on Mozilla's production of the foundational software, which eats up a significant portion of their roughly $500M/yr operational costs. The heavy development cost of modern browsers is why everything is either Chromium or Gecko-based.

    That said, Mozilla will be around as long as Chromium continues to dominate the market. Google literally funds Mozilla because it's cheaper to prop up a competitor than it is to be sued by the government for monopolistic practices (check out 1998 decision against Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows).

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    And the Blender foundation gets yearly donations from tech giants like Epic, NVidia, Unity, Google and even car makers like BMW and Volkswagen. Even Adobe, their competitor, sponsors them.

    It’s still a not-for-profit same with Mozilla. Doesn’t matter who funds them or how much they get in funding.

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