Okay hear me out. What if we all chipped in 5 bucks to @firefox? How many people would it take to fund it well enough so they don’t have to do layoffs? I get it, the FOSS community wants the “F” part but we all should contribute some for good infrastructure. And the idea that search engine payments from Google is what keeps Firefox afloat should worry us all. We need browser engine diversity if the web is going to stay open and not littered with walled gardens any more than it already is.
That isn’t for Firefox development though, that is for the Foundation and their advocacy work. The Mozilla Corporation builds Firefox and last I checked they do not take donations (unlike MZLA Technologies that builds Thunderbird, which is also a for-profit but still rakes non-tax-deductible donations). The Corporation is the one doing layoffs.