It makes a lot more sense when you realize that the Mozilla corporation is a for profit run by the same techno-fascist aggrandizing bait-and-switch narcissists as the rest of SV.

I've been saying it for years, but I will never donate to Firefox until it is freed from the shackles of a for profit corporation that can use your donation for any profit motive it sees fit; not even related to Firefox.

90% of their cash flow comes from google to be the default search engine - they are probably trying to open up alternative routes of funding to reduce the risk, since it's not guaranteed that the money will keep coming due to the current lawsuit.

FF already has tab groups. Right click on one.

I like the tab groups.

And nobody should stop you installing an extension that provides tab groups. I agree with the other commentator that some features can be left to extensions and don't need to be part of the core web browser, though.

yes, that's exactly what i was getting at.

But apparently, using the tools already available to you is not a common skill these days :(

So, are you not understanding that other people work differently, or are you just not using that skill?

Besides offering different approaches for different preferences, there are clear benefits to the extra level of organization. As an additional exercise, try to picture someone using multiple windows and tab groups.

Not everyone operates on the basic level. Hell, why even have tabs? The OS can manage multiple windows, and you can use multiple desktops to achieve the same result without that bloat.

I went for it and noticed it had the Reset button available, clicking which it switched to "false". I am on Zen Browser and I never turned anything like that on.

Any idea why it appeared like that?

I too like corn.

That's basically what librewolf, waterfox, and a whole bunch of others are. In the same way manjaro and endeavor etc. are opinionated arch installs with spackling, those browsers are opinionated settings-already-selected versions of firefox.

Mozilla is a bizarre Matryoshka doll with a for profit company inside of the nonprofit. If anything, I believe this structure is responsible for Mozilla's problems

Non profits do have corporate leeches too. The executives at Mozilla have executive salaries. That is, hundreds of thousands, or millions.

They don't work out of the goodness of their hearts. And Mozilla has to find a way to earn the income to pay their bloated salaries.

Non-profit isn't the same as not-for-profit

Take American Red Cross

They make bank on blood donations. Also, they take in way more than they put out.

Profit can be distorted based on how much employees are being paid.

They're a "non-profit," but their CEO makes millions of dollars per year. I'd say that's a profit.

Believing otherwise is just falling for rhetoric that exists to take advantage of our naivete so people richer than us can be even richer.

Many of you will disagree with this (because you're greedy consumerists), but their employees also typically don't need to be paid nearly as much as they are. Their employees are also working to maximize profit, albeit from a different, less-effective angle.

Money brings out the worst in people. I don't really value the input of people going to bat for the businessmen taking their money. Too often I see useful idiots proud to be ripped off and getting angry whenever someone points it out. It's really the norm at this point, which is sad.

So I ask everyone again, what business model exists for a software company to make money without ads or charging a monthly subscription.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_models_for_open-source_software

Speaking of WIkipedia, https://wikimediafoundation.org/who-we-are/financial-reports/

Patreon $1 a month?

Some random dude promising to "donate from time to time" is not a valid business model.

A lot of people donating, while not spending that money on dumb projects, and worse exectutives is a valid business model. Mozilla just doesn't want to do that, because they care more about their executives than they care about Firefox.

People underestimate the cost of building a fucking browser

The browser is built. I don't want to see them have a gigantic development staff because further updates are just as likely to enshitify as to improve something.

Bless your heart.