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Quantum was just one of the milestones, albeit an important one. Servo continues to develop and pass on many more features to Firefox. Shutting it down is basically shutting the major pipeline of progress that has gotten so many of us excited over Mozilla in the past several years. The decision does not augur well for Firefox and Mozilla.

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I concur, it’s quite insane. All their initiatives brought back tiny, tiny figures compared to the google search deal. And that deal is so profitable because Firefox still has a decent market share.

Torpedoing the technological future of their browser is bound to reduce that share, at which point Google will likely offer much less money.

They are basically shooting their one trick pony in a leg, deliberately. It’s.... not smart.

It makes a ton of sense if you look at it from the perspective of what leadership has been seeing: All this effort on maintaining their own browser engine, met with continued decline and further irrelevancy. Despite best efforts, a likely trend towards disaster.

In the face of that, it would be reasonable to think that the cost is nowhere near worth the effort, compared to just adopting Chromium.

I think it'd be very easy for them to think that their goals for the modern web are not intrinsically tied to having their own, completely separate software.

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