>>23,26I am very well aware that Firefox's marketshare is slipping because it is what prompted this descent into retardation during the last years. There was exactly one reason to use Firefox over Chrome after this, and it was its massive library of addons. Mozilla, in yet another stroke
of genius, nuked that reason, in the name of
modernize their product to address contemporary end-user needs
which in practice consistently translated to ``turn into Chrome''. Absolutely nobody needs a reimplementation of Chrome in Rust. I'm not sure why you bring up the origins of Netscape: they are completely irrelevant to this discussion. Why is it that the posters with the longest posts say the least?
Why not? Because there's more to Firefox than just those superficial features, of which you yourself admitted there would be no innovation.
The reason I don't use a fork is not that Firefox is so much more and has a great sense of humer, but because the codebase is a massive shitpile of Sepples, so underfunded third parties have no hope of even remotely keeping up with bugfixes and security issues.
Web standards. User expectations. Those things change.
Web standards change the way they do because they are infested by the same kind of saboteurs that plague Firefox. On the other hand, the expectations of users who expect Chrome can go up the selfsame users' asses, to be soon followed by a cactus.
Nobody needs a reimplementation of Chrome. As long as they don't vastly outperform Chrome on other issues — which they won't if their hilarious mismanagement in the last decade is anything to go by — addons will remain the only reason to use Firefox. I can install Chromium any time, I don't have to wait three years until Mozilla turned their browser into it.