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.
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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...