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How much of Firefox success depends on donations?

I have seen successful crowd-funding projects where the budget is always transparent and communicated to the public. I am certain this motivates the masses to donate.

Wouldn't it be better for Mozilla to make their funding fully transparent, to attract the masses?



From what I've seen of their recent revenue the overwhelming majority (95%) comes from royalties received from search engine companies (Google, etc), while only a fraction (~1%) comes from donations.




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