Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived?

Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by jack_pp on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:14AM (#28954770)

Firefox has 200M clients right now [0] so if 10% of users subscribed 10$ per year that's 200M $ yearly revenue. I do not know why open source companies don't try to push low $ subscription model.. I happily contribute around 20$ per month to a couple web serial novelists so <1$ per month for an independent browser would be a pittance.

[0] https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by Gigachad on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:19AM (#28954801)

I would pay for their vpn service and I would even pay for lockwise if they fixed the bugs.

But they don’t sell the vpn in my country and they give lockwise away for free but leave it broken on iOS.

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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by martin_a on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:23AM (#28954819)

So the CEO can get a raise? Nah, thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by jack_pp on Friday October 22, 2021 @04:29AM (#28954861)

CEO makes 3M per year, googling shows Mozilla revenue is ~900M, I haven't researched her and know nothing of her competence and effectiveness but I would have no issue with even a 5M salary for a person that would help build a strong enough open source browser.. the whole world would be better for it and I find it to be a small price to pay

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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by martin_a on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:07AM (#28956245)

CEO also laid off 200 people while keeping his salary. Not a good person.

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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by missedthecue on Friday October 22, 2021 @02:13PM (#28960575)

Is the CEO's job to maximise payroll?

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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by happynacho on Friday October 22, 2021 @03:50PM (#28961825)

The CEO's job is to grow the company and have it improve or make products. Tanking Firefox and firing the developers (Servo team) is the opposite of that.

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Re:Ask HN: Can Firefox be revived? by account_b on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:51AM (#28956612)

For all I care, a CEO can get whatever, if it's from the funds they raised, exclusively. Just not my donations or revenue directly from the product other people made. A "vision" or "leadership" isn't worth that much. Maybe connections are. Basically get payed for the stuff they exclusively enable.

Maybe that's even what's happening here. I agree, it's probably not the main issue at hand considering the overall financial situation.

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