Is this a hypothesis that we can specify and test? Is this how we would approach this problem?
It sounds more like a cynical write-off, not a actual strategy
>I hope a new truly FOSS browser shows up and catches on that does not use Blink and isn't owned by a group of human-shaped leeches
Cool, but that strategy clearly isn't working.
I'm suggesting, instead of writing off Firefox, we (you specifically, and me and whomever else wants to) start engaging with Mozilla to help figure this stuff out
Nothing is perfect, but at least it's got some of the hardest parts right: Organizational momentum and distribution. Technical stuff is easy to change compared to that.
The challenge now is finding competent people who can actually put the effort in, with no compensation, to make it work and that might take convincing the Mozilla folks to do something differently.
Having done this kind of thing a few times, that sounds way easier than trying to totally start over from scratch though.
