Donate mozilla

Their FAQ (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Donate#Don.27t_Mozilla_products.2C_like_Firefox.2C_earn_income.3F" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.mozilla.org&#x2F;Donate#Don.27t_Mozilla_products.2C_...</a>) contains pretty important information.<p>In particular, it answers why one should donate when Mozilla Corp makes money through corporate deals (e.g. Google and Yahoo search commissions). The answer is that all the money Mozilla Corp makes is reinvested back into Mozilla Corp (salaries etc). The Mozilla Foundation -- a non-profit which wholly owns Mozilla Corp -- is not funded by Mozilla Corp, but relies entirely on donations. Mozilla Foundations is responsible for philantropic education and awareness campaigns.<p>So this link is not about donating to Mozilla Corp, where the bulk of Firefox development happens. It&#x27;s about donating to Mozilla Foundation.

There&#x27;s a lot of stuff that Mozilla does, but I wish there were a way to donate and say &quot;try your best to allocate my money for project X&quot; within Mozilla (Corporation, which I now understand is not the one supported by donations). While Mozilla Corporation seems to primarily focus on Firefox and Firefox OS, I would like to see more attention and effort devoted on the following:<p>1. Mozilla Thunderbird to get a lot more attention and a strong roadmap (something like the now defunct Mozilla Messaging initiative).<p>2. A good high end Firefox OS phone that is widely available and gives a good enough competition to Android and iOS, even though it&#x27;s quite late and it may not have an apps collection like the other platforms do.<p>3. Reviving Persona&#x2F;BrowserID, which many people here and elsewhere have asked for. From recent discussions I do understand this is not easy to do, but we need someone knowledgeable and available to take the lead and have Mozilla&#x27;s brand pushing this for a wider reach.

Two donations made.<p>First, the money ($10).<p>Then, the post (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theunshut.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;saving-mozilla&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;theunshut.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;30&#x2F;saving-mozilla&#x2F;</a>).<p>We&#x27;d be in a much different world today if Mozilla never existed. If any contributor&#x2F;employee at Mozilla here reads this, THANKS.

I think Mozilla is one of great organization and community. I love them as open source community. They are very polite and always helps and welcome to new bies. I really like the attitude of all the Mozillian. I think Open source world needed more polite and helpful people like Mozillians.

While i do think mozilla is great, firefox is my main browser and i am following the servo project.<p>Just recently we had this article: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10630996" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10630996</a><p>edit: @FooBarWidget had a good answer

After reading the FAQ entry under &quot;How will my donation be used&quot;, I have no idea what a donation would be used for. &quot;In general, resources are dedicated to promoting openness, innovation and opportunity on the Internet in ways that will benefit everyone.&quot; Extremely vague.

I wish more people considered donating to Mozilla, Wikipedia, and other similar movements. I feel like many non-technical oriented people don&#x27;t really understand that the software and websites they use are often times built completely with donated money, and cannot survive without it.

This ship sailed when they purged Eich.

Have they thought about coordinating with Amazon to make Mozilla a SMILE partner? I usually donate through them to the EFF, but it would be cool to throw some of it Mozilla&#x27;s way.

Wikipedia and Mozilla are great products so I donate once a year for both projects.

OT but what are they using to accept donations? I&#x27;m about to set up a donation page on a project I&#x27;m running and been looking for solutions. What do people recommend?

They are dead to me since they tried to kill WebSQL&#x2F;WebDB. Mozilla has become to the web what Stallman has become for emacs.

just wanted to add that maybe allowing to donate without javascript enabled could make easier for people to donate?

Mozilla has become too politicized for me. When the board intervenes to fire the CEO for basic civic engagement which we should generally encourage in citizens, then they don&#x27;t need my money any more.

well, donating to mozilla and not openSSL, freeBSD does not make a better internet.<p>Nowadays we have strictly <i></i>NO<i></i> LTS free&#x2F;open source portable build chain of decent quality (compiler, linkers). (maybe also because of the norms)<p>When I say LTS compiler, I mean a compiler that can portably and reproducibly build code in C without flags on the CLI to the same exec and without developers having to archive their compiler every time compile to be sure to be able to build it once again with the same results.<p>You think this situation is not yet existing?<p>Hu hu hu hu hu ...<p>Houston, you have a problem.<p>Even though I appreciate LLVM&#x2F;GCC, LLVM&#x2F;GCC new major release may imply to patch specifically the C code for the $CC release.<p>And Ox flags may give weird unexpected results per compiler. And you may nowadays need GCC for some platform with specific code, and LLVM for others.<p>So how do we handle this complexity? The C code is less and less idempotent in time and architecture and performance...<p>How do we fully support long time support for reproducible multi platform build ?