Google's search deal with Mozilla is such a sizeable portion of its overall income that without it, Firefox would struggle to compete - or even survive,
The pay isn’t the only problem, it’s not even the main problem. The problem is that Google money comes with strings attached. There’s obvious corruption in the Mozilla corporation. Just as an example, Firefox was at the forefront of implementing PWA, before everyone else, before it was called PWA even. Google’s money started really pouring in, and they dropped it. Then they kept axing features and not listening to their community, stopped doing research in things that users cared about and went off on tangents no one wanted (and are still doing that with AI). Mozilla kept losing market share at the same rate C-suite bonuses climbed.
Google’s money is a cancer that needs to be excised. Mozilla can still go back to being the amazing company it was before, but only if that money is gone.
The pay isn’t the only problem, it’s not even the main problem. The problem is that Google money comes with strings attached. There’s obvious corruption in the Mozilla corporation. Just as an example, Firefox was at the forefront of implementing PWA, before everyone else, before it was called PWA even. Google’s money started really pouring in, and they dropped it. Then they kept axing features and not listening to their community, stopped doing research in things that users cared about and went off on tangents no one wanted (and are still doing that with AI). Mozilla kept losing market share at the same rate C-suite bonuses climbed.
Google’s money is a cancer that needs to be excised. Mozilla can still go back to being the amazing company it was before, but only if that money is gone.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Are you saying Google paid for them to stop implementing pwa?