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Not to mention, the core development team has been cut.

Mozilla is rebranding itself into a “Social Justice For Tech” marketing firm.

There are two significant platforms left Chromium and WebKit. I hope that isn’t the future, but browser dominance is such an obscure, indirect problem to the industry that no company would bother touching it.

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Not sure where you got the idea that the core development team has been cut, Firefox development remains strong. For example, here's a 1,000+ line patch that just landed two days ago. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779952

I shouldn’t of said cut, but they did layoff 250 members 2 years ago and among those were the Servo team.

https://www.protocol.com/amp/mozilla-layoffs-2646950077

That's not the core dev team, at all. Servo was a research group, building an experimental browser engine, parts of which did end up transitioning across to Gecko.

Some senior core developers were definitively let go, though, e.g. David Baron (who is now working for Google on Chrome instead).

Look at the tech Mozilla produces, all of it is non portable, exclusively for FF, and is not particularly great.

Chromium can be extended in many ways. V8 can be used anywhere and is what spawned node and the idea of JavaScript server and client side.

Firefox is more like a product that's source available than an open source project made to benefit the ecosystem.

They would do better to finally pony up, reskin chromium, and stop playing catch up.

They really should rebadge Chromium, then they can frolic with Rust UI changes and focus more on what they really seem to care about.

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