Mozilla confirms 2008 revenue

The Mozilla Foundation’s reported revenues for 2008 were $78.6 million, up approximately 5 per cent from 2007 revenues of $75.1 million. In a post on her blog, Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker said that, despite the financial crisis of 2008, “Mozilla remains strong financially”.

As in previous years, the majority of the 2008 revenue was generated from the built-in search functionality in Firefox from various organisations, including Google. Mozilla receives money for featuring Google as in its default home page and search bar. The deal was originally set to expire in 2008, but was extended to 2011.

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