I would happily pay a couple bucks per month for a Firefox Pro that’s exactly the same as normal Firefox.
Provided, of course that it’s easy to start and end the subscription, and I don’t have to create a new account. Fortunately Apple provides all of this with the App Store.
A) I don't want to create yet another account and give my CC number to yet another entity who can lose it
B) I guess I don't fully trust them to use the $$ for anything that I care about. Tying the revenue more directly to Firefox IMO would send a stronger signal that this is what matters.
Donations don't go to the browser's development. They go to the Mozilla "Foundation" which works on projects which you may or may not agree with, but the browser isn't one of those.
As far as I know it's impossible to donate towards the browser's development.
Because he's lying. He would not pay for Firefox Premium. The set of people who would pay for this product is vastly smaller than the set of people who say they would.
I paid for Omniweb and I still miss it. Features included per site settings, and workspaces that worked like a mix of profiles and Apple’s Spaces. It was killed off by free competitors, look where that brought us.
I would happily pay a couple bucks per month for a Firefox Pro that’s exactly the same as normal Firefox.
Provided, of course that it’s easy to start and end the subscription, and I don’t have to create a new account. Fortunately Apple provides all of this with the App Store.