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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by vetinari on Saturday August 31, 2019 @05:01AM (#20845299)
Given that Linux has 2% desktop market share (let's be generous) and Firefox has 10% (let's be generous the same way), that would mean that Linux has potential to be 20% of Firefox users. Is that something you are going to ignore?

Many executives would sell their families for less opportunity.

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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by pjmlp on Saturday August 31, 2019 @08:01AM (#20845801)
The big difference is that those executives would be getting money out of those 20% customer base.

I seriously doubt that those 20% Firefox users even consider doing a $1 donation.

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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by zaphirplane on Saturday August 31, 2019 @10:40AM (#20846538)
Firefox makes money from the install base via the search engine default setting. Fairly sure more so than donations
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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by pjmlp on Saturday August 31, 2019 @03:39PM (#20848379)
Might be, is there any official numbers?

After all plenty also switch to other search engines.

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Re:The Baseline Interpreter: A Faster JavaScript Interpreter... by michaelmrose on Sunday September 01, 2019 @12:26AM (#20850475)
Are you sure? I bet 99% just leave it configured to use google.
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