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Searx.me on Firefox (lemmy.ml)
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Why doesn't firefox use searx.me as its default search engine and doesn't even offer it as a suggestion, as suggest Bing, Yahoo, Google and others?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Google pays Mozilla to be default on Firefox. They are currently in a 3 year contract for it. In fact, this is a major source of income for Firefox and not having this deal would cripple Firefox.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

While completely understanding that an email client is orders of magnitude less than a browser resource wise and is not going head to head with a chrome monster, could you get 150M from a group of not google customers, move it into MZLA and operate firefox at 100x the cost of Thunderbird?

The entire Thunderbird project moved from being a part of Mozilla Foundation, which it was a part of since 2017, to the newly founded MZLA Technologies Corporation.

On the spending side, expenses amounted to $1.55 million US Dollars in 2020. Most of the money was spent on personnel, more than 82% ...

The Thunderbird team consists of 15 people currently, the majority are engineers ...

https://www.ghacks.net/2021/03/22/thunderbird-financial-report-2020-shows-strong-year-to-year-growth/