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Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by icebraining on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:35AM (#9587463)
Mostly, it funded development: http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mozilla_re...
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Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by ama729 on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:42AM (#9587494)
In 2012 they had a surplus of more than $100,000,000 though...

And still, $30,000,000 for administrative cost? $45,000,000 for marketing? (never saw any ads for firefox, did you? I have no idea what they spent so much money on)

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Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by maxerickson on Friday May 22, 2015 @07:04AM (#9587592)
The discussion of those numbers is here:

https://static.mozilla.com/moco/en-US/pdf/Mozilla_Audited_Fi...

It isn't hugely informative, but I would guess that the $9 million in office leases mentioned towards the end is categorized as an administrative cost.

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Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by icebraining on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:58AM (#9587569)
Marketing is not just ads. They support a lot of projects like the Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon[1], the Gigabit Community Fund[2], the Hive NYC Learning Network[3], and many more, which probably are itemized as marketing.

[1] http://stupidhackathon.github.io/

[2] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/gigabit/

[3] http://hivenyc.org/

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Re:Firefox will show ads on the new tab page based on browsi... by FooBarWidget on Friday May 22, 2015 @06:53AM (#9587539)
Maybe you can email them and ask?
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