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1. A marketing department that can get it more than 2% market share

2. A legal and advocacy department that can work with governments to stop monopolists like Google and Apple privileging their own browsers on platforms they control

3. To use its seat on standards boards to stop abhorrent practises like the W3C endorsing DRM, or Google dropping effective web-blocking APIs from extensions.



I wish mozilla would focus on developing decentralized/p2p features, from messaging to maybe tor-browsing.

I think this independence is much needed in the future to come.


Firefox should focus on not hemorrhaging users, they're about to reach the cutoff (1%) where the US government will no longer even support their browser.

No normal person will switch to Firefox for tor, despite us nerds thinking it's cool. And if they can't get actual users to switch, the browser has no future.


And if you want a browser that can do Tor, Brave has you covered.

All Firefox needs to do is make adblocking an integral part of the browser, but that would cut the Google money off.




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