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While mozilla/firefox is indeed a giant mess of legacy code: Why would a company instead support a hobbyist project with almost zero resources?

At that point we are in the mythical “What if the small business of the world united and made their own product” territory

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It doesn’t have zero resources. It has at least 1.2 million dollars

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It is not exclusively Firefox but Mozilla corp has 750 staff and 593 million in revenue according to Wikipedia.

One million is maybe ten part time developers for a year.

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