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>it should be easy for them to go to the right site: mozilla.com

Theoretically, yeah. But see, a lot of people know mozilla is a non-profit. And thus, must automatically type mozilla.org instead of .com. IMO the two should show the same site.

Of course they must have more solid data and hopefully they are using it to make their decisions.




Try an I'm Feeling Lucky for "Firefox." "A lot of people know Mozilla is non-profit," sure, but more people know that there is a browser called "Firefox" and don't give two craps about Mozilla or non-profit or open source or anything else. Surely there will be some fringe cases, but I bet most people who still go to "mozilla.org" for Firefox requests are die-hard old FF/Moz fans from before the .com site appeared, or developers. Most people will, I'd bet, just google Firefox or type in "firefox.com" and be correct.




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