[USA-RedDragon]

And you're saying Google's isn't the same? Mozilla and Google are both businesses whose primary goals are obtaining money.

If you think that there are engineers specifically on the Chrome/Chromium team who ARE interested in the technology, what's the chances that there are engineers on the Firefox team who feel the same?

My point being companies will always have to be monetarily-biased, and the hope is that the team working on the product itself still believe in it because they don't get much kickback from management's decisions about the technology.

[cosmotic]

Technically Mozilla is non-profit and thus technically not in the business of obtaining money.

[jonathankoren]

Actually, the Mozilla Corporation, the entity that makes Firefox, is a for profit corporation that is wholly owned by the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation.

It has this weird structure because the search deal makes too much money relative to donations according to IRS nonprofit rules.

If B corps existed back when this structure was created, then they would have incorporated as that, but B corps didn’t exist then, and there’s no benefit to reincorporating as a B corp now.

[readthenotes1]

I'm pretty sure all non-profits are in the business of obtaining money.

[cosmotic]

Many non-profits will obtain money, but they purpose of the business is mainly things other than obtaining money. There definitely do exist non-profits that obtain more money than you would hope for a non-profit. Mozilla doesn't smell like such an organization to me.

[eloisant]

Mozilla clearly exists to make as much money as possible for their employees (and in particular the leadership).

I know, they claim their goal is to promote the Open Web and so on... But that ideal from the 2000's is long gone at Mozilla, when you see how the leadership is acting.

[kevin_thibedeau]

But the people controlling them are. Charity vultures find a way to divert the revenue stream into their pockets.

[Melatonic]

The big difference though is that they are not beholden to shareholder demands. Other peoples demands, sure

[MattGaiser]

Yeah, but a good browser strongly aligns with obtaining money for Google. Google has strong performance quality driven incentives.

Mozilla doesn't seem to have performance driven incentives. The remaining supporters of Firefox at this point are people who are mad at tech companies/care a great deal about privacy.

[bee_rider]

There isn't some huge performance delta between the browsers, and I've already customized Firefox to my liking, why switch?

[MattGaiser]

You are already using Firefox. But Firefox needs new users too.