[rayuela]

Couldn't care less about this. Just put out a paid version of Firefox that dedicates this revenue stream exclusively to continued Firefox development and I will happily pay fist fulls of money for it. Seriously, Firefox adds so much value to my life and I'd happily pay for it.

[satya71]

https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/

[thatguy0900]

I think the "exclusively for Firefox development" is pretty important. Mozilla is doing a lot of random things these days

[Funes-]

>Mozilla is doing a lot of random things these days

Yeah, like paying three million to its CEO annually. That's not going into Firefox development alright.

[boomboomsubban]

The one who no longer works there? And how do you think they would build and manage a development team without executives?

[Funes-]

>The one who no longer works there?

As far as I know, Mitchell Baker is still Mozilla's CEO. And even if she resigned, maintaining her salary would have been at odds with keeping many employees from being fired.

>>I criticize unreasonably high salaries on a nonprofit organization that just laid off almost three hundred people

>"you are saying that they can build and manage a development team without executives"

If you want to engage in a discussion or a debate, at least be honest about it.

[boomboomsubban]

Mitchell Baker began as CEO in December, after the resignation of Chris Beard. Was permanently appointed CEO in April. Her salary for the position has not been released

Mozilla is a nonprofit, not a charity. Their executives already receive less than market rate for similar companies, by some accounts far less. They can't offer nothing.

[pgt]

I specifically want to fund Firefox, not this kinds of research. I will also pay something for continued Rust development.

[darkhorse13]

Same. Firefox is a great browser.

[ColanR]

Except for the memory leaks.

[mlindner]

Chrome eats a lot more memory for me than Firefox.

[ColanR]

The difference is, chrome allocates what it needs upfront, and that's all it uses. Firefox keeps increasing its usage.

That means that when I want to leave a website open on my server for a month, I use chrome because I know exactly how much memory it's going to use. If it was firefox, at the end of the month even the swap would be filled.

[boomboomsubban]

If you try to open something else after that month, does your computer crash or does Firefox happily give up the memory?

[ColanR]

The only way to free up the memory is to close firefox. Closing tabs doesn't do anything. I can 'killall firefox' and then reopen it to the same 50 tabs, and the memory usage after they're loaded again will be several GB lower.

I don't know if you count memory exhaustion as a 'crash' per se.