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Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Cost of development was 221 mio in 2022

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-2022-fs-final-0908.pdf

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Same magnitude. We can not fork firefox with serious support

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I guess your point stands. But also, it's 221 mio for Mozilla as a whole. Firefox might again be a fraction of this. While e.g. the Linux foundation has a lower budget, with all the contributed work hours of volunteers / corporations, a fork of Firefox is more realistic than the 500 mio make it out to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It is not the same software. A lot of drivers are developed externally for Linux. You can not do that with Firefox. Firefox is the main project of Mozilla