Another unasked for and fruitless side-project from Mozilla that did nothing but burn money and distract from their core product. Who could have seen it coming?
Uninformed comment. Due to a antitrust 2025 federal court ruling in United States v. Google LLC, Google is no longer allowed to continue its current search deal with Mozilla. Any replacement will be far less lucrative. So Mozilla needs to aggressively invest in alternative income sources. Otherwise there will be a strong funding shortfall and a headcount reduction. This could spell the end of Gecko and ultimately Firefox.
I and a lot of other people would be more than willing to donate to Firefox. But not to Mozilla, who keep throwing money out of the window. Also, the executives kept raising their own salary while market share declined, and while firing developers doing the actual work.
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Mozilla is extremely mismanaged.