Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by pabs3 » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 9:37 AM UTC

Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
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Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by pomian » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:11 AM UTC

Obviously, we die hard fans and users agree.

Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by Croftengea » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:12 AM UTC

You don't have to be very bright to figure killing adblockers in FF is a suicide.

Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by phito » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:12 AM UTC

150M seems like such a small number for something that would have so much impact

Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by jfrifkfnfofifmk » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:13 AM UTC

Mozilla rebranded itself as a "crew of activists". Browser is just a side business to generate revenue!

Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by dom96 » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:14 AM UTC

Genuinely can someone with knowledge of the business explain why they aren't simply doubling down on making Firefox better? Is there an existential problem facing them that they are trying to solve by adding AI into the browser?

Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by boobsbr » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:14 AM UTC

The Mozilla Corporation has earned around USD ~500 million in 2023.

The Mozilla Foundation has received around USD ~26 million in 2023 in donation from the Mozilla Corporation (~70%) and other sources (~30%).

Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by jowea » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:14 AM UTC

A decent chunk of the users who bothered installing an adblock would also be bothered enough to install a FF fork with adblock, so I doubt the revenue increase would be much.

As for calling it "off-mission": yes, what's even the point of FF if that's the route it goes on?

Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by major505 » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:16 AM UTC

Well, is no mistery that today the best versioins of Firefox are the non official versions like waterfox and zen.

NObody trusts mozilla anymore, specially after they turned into an add company and started paying their CEOs exorbitating ammounts, considering what was being invested in their core business (supposedly making a better browser).

Re: Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

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Post by K0nserv » Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:16 AM UTC

dom96 wrote: post #6

Genuinely can someone with knowledge of the business explain why they aren't simply doubling down on making Firefox better? Is there an existential problem facing them that they are trying to solve by adding AI into the browser?

No knowledge of the business. But I think it's because of the underlying question that plagues Mozilla: How will that make money?