Firefox Raises Its Bug Bounties to $10,000

Found on Slashdot on Monday, 27 April 2020
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"We're updating our bug bounty policy and payouts to make it more appealing to researchers and reflect the more hardened security stance we adopted after moving to a multi-process, sandboxed architecture," reports the Mozilla security blog.

They point out that Firefox has one of the world's oldest bug bounty programs, dating back to 2004 -- and it's still going strong. "From 2017-2019, we paid out $965,750 to researchers across 348 bugs, making the average payout $2,775 — but as you can see in the graph below, our most common payout was actually $4,000!"

Firefox keeps losing ground no because of bugs, but because of bad UI decisions.