Posted on 04/08/2014 7:31:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This is highly speculative, but considering that some people are moving from Firefox to Chrome, it may be worth thinking about.
Over the years, Mozilla’s reliance on Google has continued to grow. Indeed, in its report on Brendan Eich’s promotion to CEO of Mozilla, the WSJ noted that “Google accounted for nearly 90% of Mozilla’s $311 million in revenue.”
So, with its Sugar Daddy having also gone on record as being virulently opposed to Proposition 8, to think that that Google’s support didn’t enter into discussions of whether Prop 8 backer Eich should stay or go seems, well, pretty much unthinkable.
“It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8,” explained Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2008…
So, was keeping Eich aboard viewed by Mozilla — perhaps even by Eich himself — as a possible threat to the reported $1 billion minimum revenue guarantee the organization enjoys for delivering search queries for Google?”
Google is not a charity and considering its aggressive promotion of Chrome, it had reasons for wanting Firefox gone.
So that $1 billion wasn’t a gift. Google was aggressively locking in its search monopoly. But that’s not to say that some people at Mozilla might not have been nervous, particularly considering Firefox’s market share decline.
And Google has been known to play hardball and P8 opponents have been known to behave aggressively and irrationally.
I don’t have Mac, but I switched from Firefox to Pale Moon. Suddenly the response times are much faster. And I’m not getting a lot of pop ups and other non wanted advertising debris.
Deliberate typo? Heh.
Yep. I do that.
Conservatives have always mistakenly boycotted everything in sight when the best way would be boycotting ONLY ONE representative company or individual.
The correct strategery is to pick out one company (or corporation or entertainer or whatever).....and publicize and boycott the hell out of it...and keep it up for as long as possible.
I'm delighted with the concentration on Mozilla going on right now....with motivated freepers making all the right moves.
The liberals will take more notice of our onslaught if this ONE company remains in the spotlight.
Freepers, pour it on Mozilla and keep it up. Good work!
Leni
Nope, nor anyone who might be thinking for donating to non-PC causes or candidates in the upcoming elections.
Tech and controversy PING!
Try Chrome!
It is the best out there and is about 16 years old.
Meant to say Opera! Best browser out there.
I hate chrome. It’s buggy, constantly crashes, and as it’s a google product I simply don’t trust it.
That was a mistake.....meant to say Opera. I hate Chrome too.
“Moonchild Productions. Yeah, that’s gotta be a conservative organization. /sarc”
As long as it’s not an anti-conservative organization, I’m OK with it.
“I’m delighted with the concentration on Mozilla going on right now....with motivated freepers making all the right moves.”
I’m sad because I worked so hard to promote firefox/mozilla all these years. The only successful open source browser. If it wasn’t for firefox, Microsoft would’ve locked up the web making it impossible to use anything like safari or Chrome (therefore: no smartphones)
I believed in mozilla because I knew Eich was a solid guy...I didn’t know he was for traditional marriage but I knew he expressed conservative views on other issues before.
What can I do? Gotta burn this baby spawn from hell.
They’re liberals. Do you know any true liberals who aren’t anti-conservative?
“They’re liberals. Do you know any true liberals who aren’t anti-conservative?”
I heard Kirsten Powers gives conservatives the time of day without spitting in their coffee
“I think it’s funny how some people here are searching for a “conservative” browser to use. “
We could...make our own browser. Just take the open source code of firefox and fork it. Put our own name on it. I hope Brendan Eich isn’t the only conservative who knows how to do this.
Well it’s a little more complicated than that. You would then need servers to host the application and distribute it. Would need to raise some capital and hire a sales team to go get some revenue (advertising, search royalties, etc.) to keep the enterprise going. Not that it can’t be done but it’s not as easy as just grabbing some open source code and throwing it out there.
I’m trying this one out:
“WhiteHat Aviator, the Web’s most secure and private browser. With WhiteHat Aviator, you get the industry’s best and tightest security and privacy safeguards – all built-in, all activated, all ready-to-go.”
https://www.whitehatsec.com/aviator/
Interesting. There should be a list of good alternatives
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