[raincole]

I don't know how Mozilla even exists financially. Is it just that Google keeps them alive to avoid antitrust lawsuits against Chrome?

[jsheard]

Pretty much, about 85% of Mozilla's revenue comes from Google in exchange for making them the default search engine. The ongoing antitrust case against Googles search business is threatening to make that deal illegal though, so ironically the attempt to break up one Google monopoly might incidentally kill Firefox and make another Google monopoly stronger than ever.

[ipaddr]

Assuming donations would still be legal they have the funding structure to get around that through their foundation.

[nickthegreek]

They are gonna need to shed a lot of weight (like this project) in order to make donations feasible.