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Thunderbird is fully funded by donations[1]

Of course Thunderbird's budget is in a different magnitude than Firefox but I'd guess the amount of users is also in a different magnitude.

As far as I know there has never been an attempt to fund Firefox by donations. You can _only_ donate to Mozilla, which does not go to Firefox development.

People keep saying it wouldn't work but it has also never been attempted so we do not know for sure.

[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...