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Wonder why they didn't think about feature funding. As in, letting people donate to specific features.

Donations are a small part of their income.

Hmm. Maybe they have already experimented with "Donate to this specific feature if you really like it" style focused donation campaigns.

Donations to Mozilla which go to Firefox may be a small part of Firefox's income.

Donations directed to Thunderbird go to Thunderbird, and are 99% of Thunderbird's income.

The income streams are not mixed.