13 Sep
2021
13 Sep
'21
3:31 p.m.
On Mon, 13 Sep 2021 15:11:27 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
In case of Mozilla, those passive users generate money due to Mozilla's global search collaborations, which feeds into the development of Firefox: https://www.feedough.com/mozilla-business-model/
You don’t need $100 million a year to develop a browser, though. Much of that money seems to go to other projects.
Unfortunately, a complex piece of software like Firefox is not easily maintained (status quo) or further developed (adding new features) using a purely hobbyist basis.
There seems to be no shortage of forks already: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_browsers_based_on_Firefox>.