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by e2le 387 days ago
Thunderbird is quite healthy and received $8.6M in donations in 2023[0] which is used to employ 24 people[1].

Unlike Firefox, donations are used to fund development.

[0]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-repo...

[1]: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...

2 comments

I guess what we need is a non-profit fork of Firefox that takes donations directly and focuses only on the browser.
To be honest, I'm pleasantly surprised. Thanks for the info.