Firefox, a free, Open source web browser. One of most popular application on internet. One of the highly used freeware software in computer history.
Have you ever thought how they earn money ?? How they spend that much time and invest that much money on development of such a free software ??
Mozilla co-op is the company behind the Firefox web browser, Mozilla co-op was started as Non-profit company, but now its no more in that category. They are earning $40,000,000 per year !! but how ??
With every Firefox browser we got the search engine toolbar with Google as default search engine for that bar. Here starts the earning trick. Google pays huge amount to Firefox for making the default search engine in that bar and for making the home page as Google.com i.e. “Firefox Start Page” which have Google bar. This deal with Google, helps Firefox to earn there 85% of total earnings !!
This agreement with Google will end in November of 2011 so they have plenty of money to continue the development of new and advanced version of Firefox.
Firefox also sells t-shirts, and such other accessories with high price tag at there Firefox stores, and people (like me) buy them because it feels great to have official clothing and accessories from such big brands.
People also donate to firefox for there development work, donation also plays an important role in earning money.
They also got millions of hits to there site per day, so there must be some sort of earning strategy there too. but i dont have any idea about it.
Read the post from Mozilla Chairperson Mitchell Baker’s : Beyond Sustainability. Here you will get some of the official information about their earning sources.
You can also download : this PDF. Its about “Mozilla Foundation and Subsidiary: Independent Auditors’ Report and Consolidated Financial Statements 2007″ to get the actual fact and figures about their earnings.
This is how the firefox earns money and gives us the best web browser. What you think about this ? Speak up.
Aug 6, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Nice information thank you very much..chetan..
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Aug 6, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Really amzing facts…For all the money they are earning they are providing us with one of the best browsers we have come across.Thanx for sharing the information.
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Aug 7, 2009 at 9:17 am
Nice share friend, all people loves firefox.
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Aug 7, 2009 at 6:08 pm
really nice share. me too love firefox
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Aug 7, 2009 at 11:53 pm
That’s an interesting post buddy
I knew that the Google collaboration would be fetching them some money but didn’t have a clue that it would be 40 million!
Btw, have you started monetizing your PR5?
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Chetan Replied:
August 9, 2009 at 8:28 pm
@Ajith Edassery,
(about PR5) Not yet
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Technics Today.com Replied:
December 17, 2009 at 8:28 pm
@Chetan, its interesting, all are including me starting blogs for me. but you different.
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Aug 8, 2009 at 10:37 am
This is an interesting read Chetan. I didn’t perceive this angle.
Thanks for taking time and pointing this out.
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Aug 8, 2009 at 11:27 am
amazing piece of thought.
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Aug 8, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Really nice post.
Chetan, your posts are really interesting!
Thanks for this great information.
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Aug 11, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Nice Info dude.
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Aug 11, 2009 at 3:56 pm
This is a nice post. But it will be very good to share the revenue models of other big giants like Google etc.
Thanks for sharing
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Chetan Replied:
August 11, 2009 at 8:28 pm
@hammad, I am planning for the series of such posts
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Aug 15, 2009 at 8:13 am
That’s a nice article which let the user know about how firefox earn money!
hey r u interested in link exchange?
i’ll put your link on link partner section of website!
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Chetan Replied:
August 15, 2009 at 8:28 pm
@adhish, Sorry friend.. NO Link exchange
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Aug 15, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I like Firefox – it’s such a great browser – also use Opera
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Aug 19, 2009 at 8:37 pm
That’s gr8. Any organization for that sake must be financially sound in order to serve the society. Mozilla has found some good strategu to earn money as well as keep it’s flagship product open source and free to it’s users. Thanks Mozilla.
Other greedy software companies should learn from Mozilla.
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Aug 20, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Good one, you should update your website often.
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Aug 23, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Bulls eye
You actually showed us the the source of income of FireFox.
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Aug 26, 2009 at 8:55 am
Thanks for informing dude
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Aug 30, 2009 at 4:58 am
Thanks for sharing this information. I will keep coming back for more. All the best.
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Sep 11, 2009 at 11:00 pm
Kudos to Firefox and to You for providing such interesting information !!!
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Sep 18, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Nice to know about the facts. Very useful.
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Sep 28, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Its really surprising!!!!!1
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Nov 9, 2009 at 6:36 pm
I heard most of the browser company makes money from “search bar” although not sure
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Nov 24, 2009 at 6:37 am
when my aunt asked me this i immediately thought, GOOGLE. and i was right. but never expected that they earned through merchandise. that’s kinda cute.
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Feb 10, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Very useful article about Firefox
Google is great of all time
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Mar 8, 2010 at 10:21 pm
great partnership…chrome is out now…what is your opinion on this…
do you think there is going to be a dip
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