Re:The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
by nawtacawp on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:11PM
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As a non-google user, their chrome entanglement is what keeps me away. If MSFT does what you predict, I could see myself stepping away from Mozilla. More so because I like keeping the system as barebones as possible. So if there is no added benefit to installing Firefox — I won’t.
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Re:The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
by sys_64738 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:15PM
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Firefox will always be because I'm pretty sure I read Mozilla has half a billion dollars banked.
Re:The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
by slavik81 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @01:03AM
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They do, but that's about one year's worth of expenses for Mozilla.
Re:The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
by int_19h on Sunday December 09, 2018 @02:31AM
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They might have to become slimmer, then. I doubt they had $1B/year expenses back when Firefox first started gaining on IE, after all.
Re:The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
by dao- on Sunday December 09, 2018 @02:46AM
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Browsers were simpler and cheaper to develop back then. Mozilla's yearly budget today is roughly what Google spends on marketing for Chrome alone.
Re:The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
by mosselman on Sunday December 09, 2018 @04:41AM
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Sources people, sources
Re:The State of Web Browsers – 2019 edition
by slavik81 on Sunday December 09, 2018 @03:02PM
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I have a hard time believing that Chrome spends half a billion on advertising each year, given that Google can run its own ads for free. Perhaps that's a estimate for what an equivalent ad campaign would cost a third-party? I agree. A source for that would be useful.
My source on Mozilla financials is the "Mozilla Foundation and Subsidiary: 2016 & 2017 Independent Auditors' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements" - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...