• Engywook
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      7 days ago

      Mozilla will loose Google’s deal money.

      • @[email protected]
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        97 days ago

        Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.

        • @[email protected]
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          57 days ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            37 days ago

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

            • @[email protected]
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              37 days 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.

            • @[email protected]
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              27 days 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.

    • exu
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      247 days ago

      Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.

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        167 days ago

        Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.

        My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 days ago

        That really doesn’t solve the problem, like every other Firefox fork they’re completely dependent on Firefox. You can’t just make a new webbrowser just like that, and while third party developers can certainly disable some anti-features, there are limits to that and they can definitely not do the basic work that the Firefox devs do (or could do, if Mozilla had different priorities).