[nawtacawp]

As a non-google user, their chrome entanglement is what keeps me away. If MSFT does what you predict, I could see myself stepping away from Mozilla. More so because I like keeping the system as barebones as possible. So if there is no added benefit to installing Firefox — I won’t.

[sys_64738]

Firefox will always be because I'm pretty sure I read Mozilla has half a billion dollars banked.

[slavik81]

They do, but that's about one year's worth of expenses for Mozilla.

[int_19h]

They might have to become slimmer, then. I doubt they had $1B/year expenses back when Firefox first started gaining on IE, after all.

[dao-]

Browsers were simpler and cheaper to develop back then. Mozilla's yearly budget today is roughly what Google spends on marketing for Chrome alone.

[mosselman]

Sources people, sources

[slavik81]

I have a hard time believing that Chrome spends half a billion on advertising each year, given that Google can run its own ads for free. Perhaps that's a estimate for what an equivalent ad campaign would cost a third-party? I agree. A source for that would be useful.

My source on Mozilla financials is the "Mozilla Foundation and Subsidiary: 2016 & 2017 Independent Auditors' Report and Consolidated Financial Statements" - https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2017/mozilla-fdn-201...