Do you think any other company / organization would be able to take over it / fork it and develop it adequately? If so, where would they get the money? Many high-profile open-source projects (e.g. Python, Blender, well, Linux itself) managed to secure corporate sponsorships or donations in a much less toxic way than the Mozilla-Google deal.
It's an entirely different rendering engine, and an entirely different JS engine.
You must be mixing it up with MS Edge.
Either outright commits by at-google email addresses, or things like summer of code. All to play catch up with the features they shove on chrome.
Damn, didn't know that one can develop skills to evaluate the quality of a code-base by just "feeling" it and not looking at it at all - quite impressive!
What’s the deal with serenityOS? Can it be run on bare metal yet, last I checked they only have a way to run it in a vm.
Spend money on everything except browser development (>$5 billions!).
Market share down the drain.
Use the market share as an argument for a lost cause and spend money on everything except Browser development.
Ladybird - a browser spearheaded by one person - will expose Mozilla of what it is.