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IIRC, the devs of at least one of the forks - thought I forget which - have said they’d be forced quit if there was no upstream Firefox to constantly rebase from.
I wonder how many of the forks (or rather, their dev teams) would be able to handle the load of becoming ‘The Main Project’ if Firefox-proper went away.
That’s what I wonder as well…As they do need material to rebase from. I don’t know of many teams that might be able to handle that level of commitment and expense (lets be real, it’s costly to create and maintain a browser). Some of the forks have small teams, so I expect that there will be a lot of project deaths as a direct result of Firefox losing Mozilla constant support. Realistically, if Mozilla gets KO’d, nobody outside of a bigger company could ever hope to develop and maintain Firefox.
IIRC, the devs of at least one of the forks - thought I forget which - have said they’d be forced quit if there was no upstream Firefox to constantly rebase from.
I wonder how many of the forks (or rather, their dev teams) would be able to handle the load of becoming ‘The Main Project’ if Firefox-proper went away.
That’s what I wonder as well…As they do need material to rebase from. I don’t know of many teams that might be able to handle that level of commitment and expense (lets be real, it’s costly to create and maintain a browser). Some of the forks have small teams, so I expect that there will be a lot of project deaths as a direct result of Firefox losing Mozilla constant support. Realistically, if Mozilla gets KO’d, nobody outside of a bigger company could ever hope to develop and maintain Firefox.