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exactly. thank you. this is the whole impetus for the conversation of what happens to Firefox and consequently its forks.

underlying assumptions:

• many privacy-minded users use Firefox forks on desktop and possibly mobile. Without Mozilla the organization, said forks may or may not be able to continue individually on their own. However, it seems hard to argue that they would fare better if a “main” Firefox continued, possibly under the umbrella of some pre-existing group like Canonical or Linux Foundation. Better yet if Mozilla were to reverse course from its user data cash-in moves and increase its long-term stability.

seems like you’re the one who understood best what I was getting at. thanks for your opinion.

i do hope they have enough budget

i went out of my way to avoid stating any hope of FF becoming the most popular.

like you said, i actually was thinking of them capturing about 5-10% more of the market. i think that would be a significant and worthy goal. it’s enough to increase interest from potential large donors, at least slightly.

I’ve been feeling that they were getting ready to turn FF into something more commercial, and if that didn’t stabilize/increase funding enough, to shut it down entirely. so a slight and sustainable increase of users and funding is the best near term outcome, in my mind.

i went out of my way to avoid stating any hope of FF becoming the most popular. i used “stable” (as in user numbers) multiple times.

true that