There are two reasons, the first is there. The second reason is my job. I'm employed as a support engineer for company-use of Firefox/Thunderbird for 11-12 years, and the knowledge and trust are based on my addon development experience. So, I think I already monetized from addons and donation looks like a double-dealing for me now. (So after I retired I may accept donation, if Firefox and my addons still alive.) Anyway, I just say thanks to all!

> i hope to keep having a privilege to say "no" about requests not matched to my vision

I totally understand and respect that. I bet it leads to better, more focused software rather than 10 mostly-similar projects that all almost do what you want. Kodus to him!

As a long time user of many of his projects (see also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-...), that just made me respect him even more, which I honestly thought wasn't even possible at this point.

I'm guessing it is not in the japanese culture to accept donations?

I love that statement!