Sadly Google is single-handedly funding the two of the three largest browser engines. Why Googles motive may not align with mine, I don't blame them, I blame Mozilla leadership for not taking action earlier, and for only half-heartedly attempting to build new revenue sources.

More and more I think that Mozilla should have taken the Google money and created a fund, like Wikimedia. Yeah, yeah, I know, spending donations stupidly, using money on unrelated projects, the point is that they have a plan, and funding to keep running Wikipedia long into the future. Had Mozilla focused on Firefox, Thunderbird and MDN, then I can't see that they couldn't have had a substantial thrust setup by now. Perhaps that would also have allowed them to push a bit harder on donations, but they seem to busy pretending to be a Silicon Valley type business.

I'd be incredibly sad if Mozilla / Firefox fails. I still want Opera to return in it's none Chinese form, using it's own rendering engine. Without Presto Opera seems fairly pointless.