[roca]

Building a shell around Chromium or Webkit isn't very expensive.

Maintaining an independent, high-quality browser engine so that the design and implementation of the Web isn't up to a Google/Apple duopoly is incredibly expensive: https://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent... (4 years old, but the situation I describe hasn't changed, except that Microsoft has switched to Chromium so Mozilla's engine is more important than ever.)

[ClumsyPilot]

"Microsoft has switched to Chromium"

Feels like a massive missed opportunity - microsoft is the only big player not funded by ads.

Also having their own Engine was cool, i liked it, although it did sometimes have failures. Looks like they got tired if different issues and thew in the towel

[dageshi]

They would never overcome the reputation damage from IE. I think they accepted that and switched to Chromium because it just makes maintaining the userbase they do have a lot easier.

[hyproxia]

>isn't up to a Google/Apple duopoly

Remember the W3C DRM standard and how Firefox implemented it?

[zaphirplane]

700 people from wiki is more than I would have guessed even after accounting for the Multiplatform and mobile versions