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From https://reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1hokr0c/mozilla_chair_pay_vs_firefox_market_share_2023/m4aca4j/:

Total 2022 pay: $6,903,089
Total 2023 pay: $6,260,072 - a $643,017 decrease
Base chair pay: $600,000
2023 chair bonuses and other incentives: $5,622,600

Sources:

For comparison, here are other executive salaries ($0 bonuses for each)

Executive name Title Total Pay (2023)
MARK SURMAN PRESIDENT & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 715,143
J. BOB ALOTTA SVP, GLOBAL PROGRAMS 508,138
ANGELA PLOHMAN COO, SECRETARY & TREASURER 452,234
ASHLEY BOYD SVP, GLOBAL ADVOCACY 427,701
ZHILUN PANG DIRECTOR OF FINANCE 273,069
DAVID WALKER SENIOR COUNSEL 268,565
LAINIE DECOURSY DIRECTOR, ORG EFFECTIVENESS 267,028
JUAN BARANI SENIOR DIRECTOR, GIFT PLANNING 262,879
STEPHANIE WRIGHT SR PROGRAM MANAGER, MOZFEST 236,785
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If I were Google, instead of paying Mozilla millions to be the default search in Firefox, I'd give the money directly to the decision makers and influence them to turn Firefox into a piece of garbage filled with VPN offers, cloud integrations, "fair ads", and "AI" until nobody uses it anymore.

Wait...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Do anything but develop the browser much further

Then in 5-10 years it is so behind, there is no way to catch up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

still better alternative than google chrome or microsoft edge, and allows me to ad block, when either of those things stop being the case, i'll find something else

[–] Valmond 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is seriously Firefox at 3% market share, hard to believe.

[–] 9point6 9 points 4 days ago

Chrome is like 70%, safari is about 20%

Given there's some people out there just using edge on Windows because it's the browser it came with, <5% for Firefox seems about right

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It's about twice as much if we look at exclusively desktop browsers, but yes. It's been on the downturn for many years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

And they have the cheek to suggest I donate money to them. 😆 Their CEO should be donating to me!

I've switched to Librewolf mostly now since they said they merged with an advertising company and are gonna add this scam "private tracking" bollocks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

The market share plot looks suspiciously clean, where are those numbers from?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I wonder how common that is among Firefox users.

It's not common at all and you know it.

[–] static09 5 points 4 days ago

Looks like they've linked a source to a website called statcounter. The graph appears to be smoothed or normalized, but is effectively the same data for the purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Also, I was curious if users were going down or if chrome was growing faster. Looks like it is going down, but not as much as the market share would suggest.

https://www.draketo.de/software/firefox-usercount.html