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Maybe if this really takes off, in a couple of decades they'll have enough money to dedicate a research team into finding a way for Firefox Mobile users to change their UserAgent. How does Mozilla seem to have the time and money to do literally anything except give their users what they want?

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I’m still waiting for the opportunity to pay them for a freemium version of Firefox. I don’t want Pocket. I don’t want a VPN. I just want to pay for Firefox.

I'd gladly do the same if I could get all my extensions. It's so annoying to have to pull my laptop out when I need to capture an embedded video from a page or want to download all the pictures or capture a screenshot of the whole web page

> want to download all the pictures or capture a screenshot of the whole web page

This so much. A few sites I use don't offer a way to download invoices, so I rely on screenshots to save a copy.. except for firefox on android (I either take multiple screenshots using android's native screenshot functionality or avoid using firefox completely)

Honestly I switched to Vivaldi for most of my browsing. It's leagues more responsive and its adblocking is good enough for 90% of my browsing. These days I only use Firefox Mobile for porn and piracy.

Insane, that that's not possible

Can't you just set up a monthly (or one-time) donation? Although, it would be nice if it were possible to specify that you'd prefer money being spent on the browser, not on developing another Pocket or something.

Donations go to Mozilla the non-profit, not to Mozilla Corporation which is the one maintaining Firefox. There's no way to give money for Firefox development other than spending on the Corp's side-services.

Too right.

Mozilla Co gets their nose in some stuff I either disagree with or don't care about. I'd be happy to pay the Firefox team though.

> I don’t want a VPN. I just want to pay for Firefox.

Just pay for Mozilla VPN. You don't have to use it.

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