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which hopefully means Brave and friends will switch to being based on Firefox instead. Could lead to some positives.

Alternatively it could be that all alt browser companies will maintain one chromium fork that preserves manifest v2. Or V3 but with a lot more rules.

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Brave isn't affected by this anyway, brave shields don't depend on the extension API.

Also Gecko is just a factually worse engine, that's why they didn't use it.

Gecko is not worse, though it used to be worse before Electrolysis landed. It's just that Mozilla Corp is mostly kept alive by Google so might as well remove the indirection and go straight to the browser that Google maintains

How much money do you reckon it costs for just the Firefox browser? I know Mozilla waste a lot of effort on projects like Firefox OS, the Firefox mobile, politics, etc. But the actual browser it's self and it's hosting?

I just wonder if they end up dropping Manifest V2, if a patron model would work to maintain a fork properly...

Those projects exist because they are within the scope of Mozilla Foundation, which is wider than just building a browser.

It's faster, supports more features and is more secure, especially on Linux [1].

1. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...

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