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I don't understand why everyone wants to jump ship to a whole new browser, when the governance of a browser is the real issue to solve regardless of which browser is supported. A good stewardship model has to be established by people of integrity, technical skill, and funding. From there forking making a hard fork of Firefox is way cheaper and easier than trying to invest in one that's not even finished.
- Having more than two browser engines out there would be nice for standardization reasons.
  
  There are more than two browser engines. But it's important to emphasize supporting Firefox's engine because we're already at threat of there being only one dominant engine.
- Because they want to. What other reason would one need?
  
  Okay, you do you. But it still doesn't make sense to try to rally everyone else behind a whole new unfinished browser, when an otherwise very good one just needs new leadership.
  
  i do not control mozilla leadership or their mishandling my data. the most influence i can exert as an individual is by not being a willing participant to their mischief. i'll be happy to come back if the leadership changes and i get some guarantees.
  
  Absolutely untrue. Firefox is entirely open-source. Forks of it already exist. The only thing that's needed is for people who are willing and capable, to create a more dedicated stewardship model and the rest of us to get behind the hard fork they release. This is exactly the kind of thing software freedom is meant to allow us to do.
  
  It is a debatable point which would be easier:
  1 - get Ladybird to the point it is competitive
  2 - establish a viable and popular alternative dev and governance infrastructure capable of stewarding and evolving Firefox
  The fact that people want to try option one is far from crazy.
  
  The problem with your scenario is that problem 1 is problem 1 and 2 for Ladybird, whereas Firefox is already a mature code base.

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