I love Firefox (its my browser) but It’s insane to say it requires 400 millions per year.

That’s 4000 people at 100k salary. Browsers are complicated, but you do not need an actual town of developers to maintain one.

I’m not convinced it requires 1/2 a billion dollars to keep Mozilla running. I think Mozilla is mismanaged, wasteful, easily distracted by unrelated projects, & bogged down with ‘bullshit jobs.’

I’ve yet to see convincing evidence to the contrary short of folks simply telling me ‘developing browsers is insanely expensive!’

I believe the bandaid needs ripping off.

Just like how community effort into making windows more tolerable never solves the fundamental problem of it being closed-source and out of your control, Firefox being largely dependant on Google, while fighting against privacy invasion and ads creates a conflict of interests.

This is solved by removing the influence