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		sct202 on Sept 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec p... Market share is down but revenue is generally way up. Not saying it's acceptable just because of this, but that spike in 2017 might have been in response to what they thought was an infinite gravy train. Year Total 2010 $123 million 2011 $164 million 2012 $311 million 2013 $314 million 2014 $420 million 2015 $420 million 2016 $520 million 2017 $562 million 2018 $436 million https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation

pessimizer on Sept 23, 2020 [–]

That revenue has nothing to do with business, it's virtually all a payment from google, plus a tiny marginal revenue (<15%) not sourced from google.

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