With the enshittification of all-things-Google, a lot of us have left Chromium-based browsers for Firefox. But still, over the last 15 years, Firefox has gone from 30%+ market share to about 6% now.
With the big backlash against them over the last week, I’ve seen a number of people advocating for Librewolf and Waterfox – Firefox forks focused on security and privacy – but if Firefox loses what little revenue it has left, what will become of the forks if Firefox dies?
They all die. To maintain that codebase millions of moneys are needed every year and dozens and dozens of devs working on it full time. There’s a lot of boring and hard work that will never be replaced by some indie hackers working on their free time that needs to be done.
I read millions of “monkey” instead of “money” and was trying to understand if you were insulting browser developers or implying that thousands monkeys could to do the same work as a developer
If you have infinite monkeys on IDEs, some subset of 1000 of them will eventually make Firefox.