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?
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?
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.
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 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/