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It's a bit hard to tell, since not every Firefox install necessarily corresponds to a single user, but it's probably in that ballpark: the number of active installs is hovering around 200 million.
Don't underestimate the size of the browser market. A small share of a market of a couple of billion users is still a lot of people.
And presumably, like everywhere, not every dollar automatically makes things better, but having to pay people to do stuff like this isn't cheap.
Mozilla took big money and lost users due to focusing on money and keeping the status quo. Money is necessary, that is undeniable, but too much money is bad and I think the evidence is quite clear that this is one of those cases.