A leading web browser can not be built and maintained by volunteers.

glenstein 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Right. Firefox stands alone as the most successful self financed full stack browser that's ever been made without being subsidized by outside revenue streams. I like to use the example of Opera. If "make a better browser" won market share and business creativity won stable revenue, we'd all be using Opera right now because (sorry Mozilla), no browser company was ever better than Opera in my opinion.

In 2026 the rules to making a good browser are (1) already be a trillion dollar company, (2) use Chromium, (3) have some form of distribution lock-in over billions of devices. Otherwise you're cooked. Mozilla swims against the stream better than anyone.

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manfredz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don’t know, but there are other ways of funding besides -completely- volunteer run.

Take look at Ladybird

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladybird_(web_browser)?wprov=s...

	▲	aucisson_masque an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You can't seriously compare ladybird, a mostly broken browser nowhere ready or even remotely close to it, to Firefox. Ladybird will be dead in a few years.

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PaulHoule 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The EU says it cares about privacy. although it's actions have normalized enshittification; the EU could fully fund Firefox or a Firefox fork or another browser in a second and stop all the trackers right in their tracks.

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throwaway290 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It's American company... unlikely.

	▲	PaulHoule 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Then fork it. Besides, the one thing Mozilla could do to be relevant to 99.9% of web users is to move somewhere other San Francisco and turn their office their into a homeless shelter. They should go to Dublin or Frankfurt or Barcelona, anywhere.