The Mozilla Foundation in the year 2008 once again increased revenues. Foundation head Mitchell Baker has published on Thursday on the pages of the blog reviewed financial report. According to it, subject to the Mozilla and its parent company earned a total of 78.6 million dollars (about 53 million) - about 5 percent more than the previous year (75 million dollars).

A large part of the profits achieved by the foundation of Firefox search function, which is responsible for the Mozilla Corporation. The company participates in the distribution of income generated through this function by partner companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Amazon. Lion's share of stops in this case Google. In addition, the foundation profits from donations and other partnership programs, its online store and returns. Except that in 2008 its investments have brought a loss of 7.7 million dollars.

Stand in front of the revenue expenditure amounting to 49.4 million dollars (about 33 million), approximately half higher than in 2007 (33.3 million dollars). A large part of the salaries of employees and infrastructure maintenance. In 2008, the foundation work pay "approximately 200 full-time and temporary programmers around the world. Nearly 60 percent of expenditure on salaries accounted for developers.