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Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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I'm still using Chrome, but it keeps getting shittier. At some point they'll push me over to Firefox. Hope Firefox can avoid getting shitty.
While Mozilla is far from perfect, I think they've managed to avoid getting shitty for almost 20 years.
That's because the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit. They don't need to maximize value for their shareholders™.
Thank you Netscape for setting Navigator free!
The Enshitification cycle is a feature of for profit corporations, Google was always going to turn evil at some point.
The Mozilla Corporation is for profit, but they reinvest all of their profits. They are also wholly owned by the Foundation. You can't donate to Firefox.
Yes, and they've made some profit-driven decisions, such as pocket integration, but never on the level of what google does.
That's why I've said they are far from perfect (but the best we have).
And dropping Thunderbird :(
Although it seems to be doing well now under its own, newish commercial corporation.
It's coming along nicely. I donate and am a fan.
That's what non-profit means. You reinvest the profit back into the project rather than pocket the money. It doesn't literally mean "no profit".
Cool. They also have rules about how you make money and where that money goes. The Mozilla Corporation is not a non-profit. It is a commercial company created to make profit to support development.
So, a non-profit that skirts the rules, basically. Good to know.
It is a non-profit.
Did you read that? Because it says it isn’t.
The Foundation is a non-profit. The Corporation is not. The Corporation is taxable. It can generate revenue in ways a non-profit cannot.