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Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

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Re: Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

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If you want me to take you seriously talking about revenue, don't show me half a balance sheet.

Links to the audited financial statements are available at the bottom of https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2016/

NB: The chart further down is in _thousands_ of dollars!

Re: Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

#5
Firefox, please I need my tabbed browsing back! One click and boom it opens a new tab after clicking a link, opening a bookmark, rendering a search result and etc!

Tab Mix Plus made Firefox my default browser yet it’s not supported and or there’s new substitute :-(

I reverted back to the previous release but then it seemed After a week to start displaying hacked behavior. Started opening tons of windows with each click.

Re: Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

#6
"Mozilla ditched Yahoo recently however in favor of Google, two years before the five year contract would be up for renewal. The terms of the new deal with Google have not been revealed yet, and it remains to be seen whether this new deal will give Mozilla's revenue another boost in 2017."

Apparently Firefox 57 when it is installed tries to switch the users default search engine to Google.

Whether it asks for user permission to do so, I am not sure.

Do the terms of the deal actually require them to do this?

Re: Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

#7

"Mozilla ditched Yahoo recently however in favor of Google, two years before the five year contract would be up for renewal. The terms of the new deal with Google have not been revealed yet, and it remains to be seen whether this new deal will give Mozilla's revenue another boost in 2017." Apparently Firefox 57 when it is installed tries to switch the users default search engine to Google. Whether it asks for user pe…

It did for me.

Re: Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

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post #5

Firefox, please I need my tabbed browsing back! One click and boom it opens a new tab after clicking a link, opening a bookmark, rendering a search result and etc! Tab Mix Plus made Firefox my default browser yet it’s not supported and or there’s new substitute :-( I reverted back to the previous release but then it seemed After a week to start displaying hacked behavior. Started opening tons of windows with each cli…

Pale moon, Waterfox, maybe Basilisk.

Firefox as we knew it is dead, mutilated by parents that wanted something else than what they ended up with.

Re: Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

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"Mozilla ditched Yahoo recently however in favor of Google, two years before the five year contract would be up for renewal. The terms of the new deal with Google have not been revealed yet, and it remains to be seen whether this new deal will give Mozilla's revenue another boost in 2017." Apparently Firefox 57 when it is installed tries to switch the users default search engine to Google. Whether it asks for user pe…

It certainly did not ask for me and just switched from startpage to Google. Also auto-installed the update (against my will) after I had voted to wait a few times, though that might have been autoupdate as it was on my work computer (have heard from others that it was not which I also suspect but I am too lazy to check). Mozilla is certainly losing trust with that, if it weren't for the lack of good alternatives...

Re: Mozilla’s revenue increased significantly in 2016

#10

"Mozilla ditched Yahoo recently however in favor of Google, two years before the five year contract would be up for renewal. The terms of the new deal with Google have not been revealed yet, and it remains to be seen whether this new deal will give Mozilla's revenue another boost in 2017." Apparently Firefox 57 when it is installed tries to switch the users default search engine to Google. Whether it asks for user pe…

A few years ago when Mozilla switched from Google to Yahoo, they updated Firefox on my Mac and changed my default search from Google to Yahoo. It was not a new installation, it was an upgrade, and I was not asked about the switch.
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