It may kill Mozilla, no reason to say it will kill Firefox itself. Perhaps Firefox would flourish a lot more if it is finally released from Mozilla's clutches.

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throwatdem12311 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Who would possibly take it over? Redhat maybe?

I don’t think Firefox survives as a community based project.

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exitheone 30 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

That's extremely unlikely. Keeping up with modern browser features takes a very large amount of work.

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vsgherzi 27 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That’s true but I think most people’s beef is that most of the funding for Mozilla isn’t going to that work. Wethers that’s the case or no I have no idea, but that’s the general sentiment

	▲	DroneBetter 17 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		the CEO's pay in particular seems to have absorbed a large portion of the savings created by layoffs. cf. Mozilla Firefox Is Dying (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44939271 and a list of posts from 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39303736

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sfdlkj3jk342a 15 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

I would have agreed with you a couple years ago. But a few motivated volunteer developers and some LLMs could do it (possibly along with some moderate community funding).