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Sigh. Another of the long line of defeatist non-arguments. What is your point? Should we all just roll over and die? Writing just to be contrarian?

The point is that for the Firefox to gain more foothold Mozilla first needs to break the dependency on Google's money. And this won't happen without deep restructuring of the Mozilla corp, starting from the top and shedding all the blubber all the way down. The chances of that happening are next to zero. You can label that as "defeatist non-arguments" all you want, but that's a very unfortunate reality. Saying this as a die-hard Firefox user of almost 20 years.

On the other hand Firefox development could be paid with a small fraction of Mozilla's current budget. They are doing all kinds of un-/semi-related stuff. But of course, it remains to be seen if the organization could survive such a financial drought.

Which, in this world, can happen. The part that irks me the most isn't so much that, but that Mozilla is more than happy to suckle at that teat and not change the current status quo.