[jjawssd]

It is impossible to fork Firefox and survive. If you destroy Mozilla all the users will migrate to Chrome. There is no successful financial model for browser development. Browser development is a financial black hole and requires alternative revenue streams for developers to put food on the table.

[onli]

A real fork might be impossible, but a soft fork that just disables features like this should be possible.

[Pete_D]

Indeed, this is how IceCat works: by taking the Firefox ESR release and sed'ing out things like EME and telemetry.

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/tree/makeicec...

[squarefoot]

"It is impossible to fork Firefox and survive"

Pale Moon did this a while ago and is still around, although in need of donations as many other volunteer-driven projects. https://www.palemoon.org/

[AsyncAwait]

Pale Moon would sink in a week if Mozilla closes, it does not have the resources to implement or influence new standards.

[squarefoot]

That wasn't a Mozilla vs Pale Moon contest, anyway if Mozilla would close Pale Moon would likely inherit at least part of its developers and user base. Surviving economically however would be a totally different beast.

[digi_owl]

And Mozilla has?!

[AsyncAwait]

Certainly more so than Pale Moon.