It's genuinely high time a dedicated group of capable individuals fork #Firefox and establish a new, lean organization. Put out a transparent donation page, and the aim should be to attract the core engineering talent from Mozilla who still believe in the original mission. Those who understand the web needs more than just Chromium derivatives.
The singular, unwavering focus ought to be developing and advancing Firefox and the crucial #Gecko rendering engine. Nothing else. No side-quests into VPNs, no acquisitions of read-it-later services, no chasing social media trends.
Pure browser and engine development.
This wouldn't be another niche fork emphasizing extreme privacy to the detriment of usability, nor a playground for radical UI/UX experiments that alienate the existing user base. It should be a direct continuation, the spiritual successor to what vanilla Firefox should be: a high-performance, standards-compliant, user-centric browser that offers a genuine alternative.
Let #Mozilla executives continue their strategic contortions with Google's funding and pivot hard into the AI gold rush. The talent is there...the will among users for a focused Firefox is palpable. It just needs a new home.