[guardiangod]

I think that if Mozilla is not interested in further developing Firefox, they should split off Firefox to its own entity.

Then the people who wants to work on/support Firefox can solely work on Firefox, and other people who wants to pursue whatever tech-of-the-day is (eg. crypto, VPN, AI) can push whatever agenda they want in their own org.

Instead of the current state where the other-agendas people are riding on Firefox's brand name recognition while starving Firefox into oblivion.

[hysan]

> I think that if Mozilla is not interested in further developing Firefox, they should split off Firefox to its own entity.

They won’t do this because then they can’t redirect any of the donations and funding that people give to Firefox to <insert non-browser project here>.

[BrendanEich]

None of the donations to the parent Mozilla Foundation pay for Firefox development. This is a common misconception, Mozilla's own fund-raising makes it more common than it would be if they were explicit in stating where donations go and what they fund and do not fund.

[hysan]

That’s good to know. Thanks for clearing that up for me. Is it possible to donate directly to Firefox?

[BrendanEich]

No, not as far as I know. And definitely no tax-deductible way to do it.