Comment by throwawaythekey
6 days ago
Firefox makes hundred of millions of dollars in revenue per year. If you assume the same revenue per user and apply it to Chrome's market size (about 30x that of firefox) then you have a top 20(?) tech company in revenue terms.
They will have more money than they know what to do with. But yes, going closed source does seem more likely.
Isn't firefox mostly making its money from Google? They'll be struggling too if Google gets out of the browser business and no longer feels the pressure to sustain them
Google doesn't fund Mozilla because it is in the browser market, it does it so it can keep the search engine dominance.
Google also pays Apple for the same reason.
Now it would probably be paying the Chrome company as well.