Could you get 1% of Firefox users to subscribe at $2/month (total, not per device or user or anything) to a proper community-owned fork, if that meant you could get rid of the stupid obsessions of Mozilla management, and make the browser the *only* thing the new organization worked on?

A million people, at $2 / month? You could fund a pretty good development team on even half of that.

Maybe it's unpossible. Maybe it's not.

The existing forks of Firefox basically depend on Mozilla doing the development, then the forks strip out whatever bits they object to and re-package it. That's not sustainable; if Mozilla makes one hard turn, suddenly that "just strip it out" becomes a mammoth task the all-volunteer forks can't keep up with.

Forking Firefox once, and getting a smaller, but focused, funded, and stable development team for it, seems like it might actually solve the problem.

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