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by summerlight 1381 days ago
Sadly, old Mozilla won't come back even if we get rid of the current one. Building web infrastructures is now a completely different story than 20 years ago. You're not going to build a new functional web browser from scratch without hundreds of millions of bucks every year.
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> You're not going to build a new functional web browser

Then thank god that Firefox is FOSS, so whoever picks it up won't have to. The abolition of Mozilla would mean that more thoughtful forks won't have to compete with upstream for either cash or attention. Although I'd bet $1000 that if Mozilla died, they'd give Firefox and its trademarks to the Apache Foundation Openoffice-style to protect Chrome even after the company's last breath.