https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/07/will-firefox-rise-like-phoenix-from-the-ashes-in-2024/ This morning I watched a live discussion with Mozilla CEO (Mitchell Baker) from yesterday on the BBC. One of the questions asked was what would happen to Firefox when its main source of income (Google Search payment ends) Unfortunately I cannot get the sound to work properly for this on YouTube today. All other videos work and music works okay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cww5A_S2-UY
google payments gets reduced while mozilla own services raise, and this is by purpose. and not to forget - google is willing to pay for being a major search engine in firefox, mozilla did not ask for it. but mozilla did not refuse to take the money, to many dependencies - jobs, development, services. mozilla and its products concern privacy more than income. firefox is currently the only browser which is capable to handle cookie consent dialogs, no chromium browser can do this. chrome is adding now services around security, ti name email check for breaches which is available in firefox for years now, and some more of those. raising money to ceo and others - contracts are non disclosure, do they really know all? mozilla the non profit foundation is forced by this circumstance to disclose their income/taxes/more, but not contracts. https://www.soeren-hentzschel.at/mozilla-umsatz/en/ so according to official numbers search engines paid less than years before. if firefox will return? we will see how deep the dependencies of chromium based for users is.
I doubt it, I'm very disappointed with Firefox, it keeps nagging you about updates and Vivaldi is miles ahead in terms of features. If Google doesn't cripple adblockers too much, I don't see a lot of people switching frome Chrome and other Chromium clones.
