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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by account42 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @06:20AM (#30345126)
> The main problem is that they're not making money with their core product so they need to experiment and innovate to find ways to make money.

Firefox is owned by the Mozilla foundation, the corp is only there to help develop it since having developers work directly for the foundation is apparently complicated. Non-profit foundations don't need to find ways to make money with their core product and they should not try to - instead they can seek funding elsewhere, for example from donations and government grants.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by GekkePrutser on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:39PM (#30355362)
No the corporation was founded because having a major corporation like Google pay so much to a foundation was difficult for tax reasons.

But it did push them over the edge IMO. They're behaving like a corporation now, with a CEO pulling as much money as they can, too much PR etc. Through the Google deal they have become what they were fighting. But they're not very good at it, hence the low marketshare.

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