What’s the last innovation they dropped on the world? Nothing.
I still can’t copy urls From multiple selected tabs without an extension.
What we need is a group to step up, create a new browser, capture the 500M/year payday and put the money to work.
Rust, Wasm (although a joint project, inspired by asm.js which was purely Mozilla) come to mind.
Also, I consider keeping the focus on privacy in an age when huge behemoths of companies are determined to steal every aspect of our lives for profit to be truly important work, much more important than any tech innovation.
steve could chime in to be more precise. But I'd say Rust is a merit of the people involved much more than Mozilla.
If anything Mozilla just fired servo folks who contributed to Rust so it's not like they even pretend to support it.
I hope Rust gets a foundation and I hope that Mozilla transfers the "Rust" trademark to them.
Building something competitive means being able to make reasonable assertions of security, and that takes tons of resources.
WebRender (and ongoing work on Servo/Pathfinder) shows that browser graphics can work on the GPU. Not just a couple limited CSS properties on carefully selected layers (like in WebKit/Blink), but all of it.
These are major architectural innovations.
I wonder what's the budget for Blink.
The screenshot feature is great and I use it constantly.
The containers implementation is pretty slick, and it enabled the first-party Facebook Container add-on which makes it harder for FB to track users across the web.
Edit: And readability mode, which was added a long time ago but I'm including it because Chrome still doesn't have one.
They got a lot of great improvements and under-the-hood innovations out of Servo, and had more in the pipeline, and MDN served as a bedrock, reliable, gold standard documentation for modern web development.
Coincidentally, the two things they just completely scuttled.