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Mozilla Raking in Millions?
truthsearch writes "Internetnews.com wonders about the money Firefox is making in revenue thanks to Google. From the article: 'Mozilla gets paid a publicly undisclosed amount for each Google search query made from Firefox by a user.' This revenue is used to pay the recently formed Mozilla Corporation's 40 full-time equivalent employees and fund project and infrastructure development."
By using this link to get to the story ;-)
Interesting to note the default "google" keyword for the address bar puts the sourceid=firefox in there
As an aside, for those who want to make their own custom keywords (and don't know how to), here's an example: Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks, click on any of the bookmarks under "quick searches", click new bookmark (top left), I made one for acronyms using acronym finder.
Name: Acronym Finder
Location: right click here, copy link location, paste (/. chews up the link)
Keyword: af
Description: You can put whatever you want here, it's optional
Then you click ok. Now when in firefox you can just search for acronyms by typing af + the acronym, for example: af HTTP
For other websites that use a link similar to the acronymfinder one, just insert %s where your query would go. In my example it's in Acronym=%s. You can also note the other default quicksearches that already exist (ex. slang for urban dictionary, dict for dictionary.com)
There is another kind of evil which we must fear most, and that is the indifference of good men. -- Boondock Saints
Yeah this is basically a perfect example of how capitalism is supposed to work really.
If you give money to mozilla, you will give to the Mozilla Foundation which is a non-profit. If Google gives money to Mozilla, they will give to the Mozilla Corporation (corporations have less regulations) whose sole shareholder is the Mozilla Foundation.
You can't really object to the Mozilla Corporation saying "Oh, they'll put all that money in the pockets of their shareholders" because the only shareholder they have is a non-profit entity.
The corporation does not disclose how much they make and they pay taxes.
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While I suspect the grandparent's estimate is high, you've misinterpreted it by two orders of magnitude - it wasn't $0.02 per click, it was 0.02 *cents* per click. Still a lot just for doing a search though.
If you RTFA, a Mozilla board member says that the quoted figure of $72 million is too high, but "not off by an order of magnitude".
I wanted to disable it, because I don't need google (or anyone else) to know I'm using firefox.
Ever heard of UA strings?
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.google.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060203 Fedora/1.5.0.1-1.1.fc4.nr Firefox/1.5.0.1
Google has a similar relationship with Opera, just to let you know.
Map of Mozilla HQ
Map of Google HQ
The Mozilla Foundation is non-profit. The Mozilla Corporation is not. The later was created to support the former.
If you've disabled memory caching in about:config, re-enable it.
Disabling it causes firefox to leak huge amounts of ram.
"FOSDEM: The Mozilla Foundation's partnership with Google has kept it afloat for the past few months, and is now allowing it to hire more staff"
Seems to suggest that the google deal came through roughly at the same time. however that headline was misleading to suggest google was keeping Mozilla foundation afloat. see
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/00765As long as google sticks to gathering information from me only when i use google I am happy enough, it's when you get into alexa type activitys i am not.
http://www.pcanswers.co.uk/tutorials/default.asp?Although Alexa does go hand in hand with the internet archive. (damn conflicts with something I do like)
If your interested in Datamining in general http://www.kdnuggets.com/dmcourse/other_lectures/i ntro-to-data-mining-notes.html
or "knowledge discovery" then that link looks interesting
I like google but they are slipping wtf are all the landing sites doing high in the rankings. you know if google could derank hits based on how quickly someone went back to google after following a duff link it should progressively improve
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revenue != profit
Yeah, the Mozilla Foundation files IRS 990s at least... Can't seem to find anything newer than 2004 of course.
7 /2004-200097189-01fa37ef-9.pdf
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2004/200/09
http://www.scroogle.org.nyud.net:8090/mozilla.pdf (same content as above)
Not sure how that's going to work out with the MoCo spinoff; IANAA so I don't know if a NPO wholly owning a corp would need to report on profits made by the corp or not.
But I don't care, I just don't. I've closed all tabs but one, and when I got home Fx mem usage was through the roof. I don't know why; was it Fx? Was it an extension? Was it many extensions? Some rogue JS left in memory? In the end (my end, YMMV), it doesn't matter. I don't know how to reproduce it; for me, Fx always stayed below 350 MB until that day, but now I've switched to Opera. Yes, it does tend to eat up a lot of memory sometimes, but it seems that Opera's GC does its job. Now I'm at 100 MB after some more surfing, and I'm curious as to what will happen later.
Actually, the Mozilla Foundation, as a non-profit organization, does need to disclose it.
7 /2004-200097189-01fa37ef-9.pdf
For example, for 2004,
http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2004/200/09
Actually, the Mozilla website and all that is hosted by the Oregon State University's Open Source Labs. So from Mozilla's point of view, the bandwidth and all that *is* free indeed.
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This is true, but when you close Opera it keeps all your tabs and stuff so that when you open it again they're all still there (at least this is how it is by default and I've never known anybody who cared to change it). So, unlike Firefox, if it starts leaking memory to an unacceptable degree, you can just close it and reopen it and you're all set. In firefox, if you tried to do this, you'd lose all the tabs you had open, obviously.
I've installed the SessionSaver extension, so I can do the same with Firefox. I consider it a good enough remedy to deal Firefox memory leaks that there may be. It should be included as a standard feature and I believe it will be in 2.0.
Excellent leg work! This tells us that in 2004, Google donated $225K to Mozilla. Mozilla also received $4.4 million from search companies for directing people to the search pages. It's not broken down by how much each search company paid, but I think it's safe to assume that it was mostly Google.
Also of note is that the Mozilla Foundation spent nearly all of the money it had at the beginning of the year. In other words, their 2004 budget was just about equal to their assets at the beginning of the year. Which is pretty much what you want from a non-profit.
Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
That's probably not a leak. You probably grew the scope chain by inadventently creating nested closures. I wrote a web app which was sensitive to this, and managed to trim its runtime memory footprint up to 100 megs by being more careful about how I use closures.
Some of your wishes are obsolete! Firefox 1.5 already includes Javascript image creation in the form of the canvas element (more, more, more). PNG compression is included. And of course there's also SVG. In the future, there may even be OpenGL...
main(c,r){for(r=32;r;) printf(++c>31?c=!r--,"\n":c<r?" ":~c&r?" `":" #");}