alt Hacker News> But the issue is browsers don't make money.
What?! Browsers might as well be money printers! Have you heard how much money Google pays Apple to be the default search engine in Safari?
The higher Firefox’s user numbers, the more money Mozilla can make from search engine deals. Conversely, if Mozilla keeps trying to push a bunch of other initiatives while Firefox languishes and bleeds users, Mozilla will make less money.
If you don’t like this form of revenue… well, I don’t know what to tell you, because this is how web browsers make money. And trying other stuff doesn’t seem to be working.
On the other hand, we typically find it unfair that Google can buy their search supremacy by being the default search engine.
We can't complain about Mozilla taking the money from Google and at the same time complain because they take the money from Google :-).