Firefox has 230 million monthly users, using FF for an average of over 5 hours per day.
Many executives would sell their families for less opportunity.
I seriously doubt that those 20% Firefox users even consider doing a $1 donation.
After all plenty also switch to other search engines.
Its probably more fair to go on profit not revenue.
100 million in revenue * 2.18% is 2.2 million. A decrease of 10% of that is 220k. If engineers at mozilla are 150k then 3 months of work is aprox 38k.
This would put the break even point at losing 2% of its linux users by not spending the money.
> 3 months of work
according to whom? this will almost certainly need more than a single engineer's eyes on it. and even if it is 3 months, that's 3 months they don't spend working on features for 98% of their userbase.
i want this to happen as much as anyone, but i just don't see the compelling math here. it's a chicken-egg problem (if FF could use VA API [1], then more might switch to linux).
personally, i'm happy that Panfrost recently got mainlined.
and probably < 0.5% of it due to its linux userbase?