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Let me pay for Firefox

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802 points csmantle | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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gr4vityWall ◴[13 Jul 25 10:08 UTC] No.44549048[source]▶
I used to want to donate to Mozilla Foundation, but I've long lost any hope that the corporation would spend that money in a way that makes sense to me. The pessimist on me would expect donated money to be spent on more built-in "campaigns", "studies" or ads. Or maybe a bonus for their executives.

I just want Firefox to be faster. I'm donating to Floorp (a Firefox fork), at least they seem focused on making the browser better.

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immibis ◴[13 Jul 25 10:28 UTC] No.44549167[source]▶
It would be possible to create a new foundation that works on Firefox and is not Mozilla.
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fabrice_d ◴[13 Jul 25 16:02 UTC] No.44551363[source]▶
It is possible to create a new foundation that works on a new browser product based on Gecko indeed. You just can't call it Firefox because of trademark ownership.

It would be interesting to see how it collaborates / competes with the origin project, how fast and how far they diverge etc.

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1. altairprime ◴[13 Jul 25 20:00 UTC] No.44553171[source]▶
You can if you arrange with Foundation to license the trademark under non-profit terms. Not that this is likely to be done by anyone, but if anyone could do it, I’d like to think the Servo group could.