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by bzbarsky 4411 days ago
> Perhaps a better statement would have been that Mozilla tries to avoid paying taxes.

That flies in the face of what I'm seeing in the Mozilla Corporation financial statements.

> Now, how easy is it to compile Firefox these days?

It depends on which OS you're doing it on, but there are pretty detailed step by step instructions at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Simple_Firefox_buil... and the things it links to. The biggest hassle is making sure that the various prerequisites (a compiler, some development libraries, autoconf 2.13, etc) are installed. On most modern Linux distros or Mac this is not a big deal. On Windows it's a slight bit more annoying.