[altairprime]

The fanbase has no money to offer Firefox. As with all free products in today’s wage-inequality world, no one can afford to pay for a browser, so no one will voluntarily — and if they try to charge money, users will just switch to Chrome. So either the mission of “free open web” goes out the door or they end up sacrifice their Necko/Gecko clusterfuck in order to cut the hundreds of jobs it takes to maintain creaky old C++ browser engine. Ten bucks says they announce their intentions to migrate to WebKit or Servo in the next year.