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Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google
An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today released its annual financial report for 2012, and while revenue is up quite substantially, the organization's reliance on Google continues to grow. In 2011, 85 percent of Mozilla's revenue came from Google. In 2012, the figure increased to 90 percent."
It's because instead of listening to what the users want, they plow ahead with stupid UI-redesigns to make Firefox a slower, buggier Chrome clone. I mean sure, the new UI is spiffy, but they can't fix a nearly ten year old bug with find.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
You obviously do not use, nor rely on, extensions. Extensions for Chrome/Chromium pale in comparison to what extensions for Firefox can do.
Want tabs on the side? Good luck with Chrome. Good luck with alternate Webkit browsers with not enough marketshare to attract extensions.
Simple things like holding control (and optionally shift!) to select cell values or entire columns in a table are what set Firefox apart from other browsers.
Because it breaks the fucking web. So much so that Google have hacked people's installations of Safari to disable it.
Out of the goodness of their heart. It obviously has nothing to do with 3rd party cookies being used for tracking and generating ad revenue.
No, you don't need 3rd party cookies. The benign use of those is almost non-existing, and the only "breakage" are sites that deliberately won't work unless they can track you. If you're fine with that, there's a Chrome for you.
How about:
- TabKit (tabs on the side, how does anyone browse without this?!!)
- FoxyProxy
- NoScript (it's not the same on Chrome)
- Redirector
- Screen Capture Elite
- HTML Validator
- Refcontrol (blocks/fakes referrer header)
- Better Privacy (flash cookie blocker/sanitizer)
The list goes on...
Why not operate off donations? They're not a for-profit corporation, they don't have investors or shareholders, etc.
Well, their expenses for software development in 2012 were almost $150,000,000. Their expenses for branding and marketing were almost $30,000,000.
Now, if you can find enough people to make those donations, good luck.
You could (and probably should) argue that their expenses should not be that high, but they're never going to hit that revenue with donations.
Mozilla's CTO, Brendan Eich, gets $652,194.
This is an organization that takes years to fix bugs and has a huge legacy code base they can barely manage. (There's still a lot of Netscape stuff in there.)
It breaks comment sign-in on all Blogger/Blogspot blogs, and anything that uses Disqus. Also Engadget's current system (Livefyre?)