And Google pays Mozilla for prime placement because Firefox has users(even Bing would). No users = no money.
So, this is not your typical volunteer FOSS project when you're pulling in upwards of 100 million dollars a year and the standard rebuttal to people asking for bug fixes and features does not apply.
Reminds me of the mouseover text bug that Randall Munroe was requesting to get fixed for Xkcd and was met with hostility. Did they expect him to fork Firefox to make his Firefox readers see the text? It took them 7 or 8 years to roll the fix into Firefox.
So, this is not your typical volunteer FOSS project when you're pulling in upwards of 100 million dollars a year and the standard rebuttal to people asking for bug fixes and features does not apply.
Reminds me of the mouseover text bug that Randall Munroe was requesting to get fixed for Xkcd and was met with hostility. Did they expect him to fork Firefox to make his Firefox readers see the text? It took them 7 or 8 years to roll the fix into Firefox.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45375 (search for Randall).