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May I be frank? I suspect that, in the long run, Mozilla not getting this money will actually benefit Firefox. Sure, so exec will get pissed as they won't get 5.6 million dollars a year, and Firefox won't get some weird nobody-asked-for feature that'll be ditched some time later; but I think that they'll focus better on the browser this way. Specially because whoever is paying the dinner is the one picking the dish, and with a higher proportion of their effective income coming from donations, what users want will stop being so neglected.

Just my two cents.

What smaller browsers?

what Mozilla is really afraid of is losing the over inflated bonus the execs get paid.

That's unfortunate, but it still needs to happen. Mozilla will adapt.

"Listen, making the entire market dependent on one corporate benefactor just sothey aren't a 100% monopoly and only a 99% one is important"

Jesus Christ Mozilla, do you hear yourself?

I understand why Mozilla would want to keep the money coming from Google, but it might also be good for them to be less dependent from Google.

Nothing is preventing them from cutting deals with other search engines if they want to keep doing that.

tldr: but muh paycheck!

Oh my fucking god Servo cannot get here soon enough.

Yeah, I don't care. Just do it.

There are other search engines. Maybe Firefox can partner with them.

It's certainly better than the status quo. Sure, Mozilla will hurt at first because they've put their revenue source in the same basket, but it's an opportunity to grow back.

Maybe force them to give it to Mozilla since they are the primary ones that are hurting from googlopoly?

Mozilla will be fine. I'll literally pay them annually if worst comes to worst and I bet others would too.