How is 550 million for a browser company not enough money? I mean seriously, how much more do they need? If I were a systems or c++ dev I'd start my own browser, apparently it's very profitable to do so...
Maybe firefox should become more like microsoft and amazon and instead of monetizing the browser become a bigger competitor to google et al viz vi cloud services. They also could build products for developers to use for browser testing across multiple platforms, etc...
I don't see premium firefox taking off, but more competition with AWS, Azure, GCP is never a bad thing, or maybe they do something like Brave Browser and merge crypto with browsing though that seems tenuous compared to some other options.
Sorry, this reminds me of people who go to Upwork to get a Facebook clone written in a weekend for $600.
Writing a rendering engine for CSS and an interpreter for javascript are not trivial. Plus you have to make them secure. And deal with all sorts of edge cases. And that’s before we even get to the HTTP stack, cookie and local storage handling, etc. Let alone expected browser amenities like bookmarks and (secure) extensions.
And then make it cross-platform, including supporting older versions of a bunch of operating systems, and all sorts of hardware configurations, several dozen languages, RTL input...
Maybe firefox should become more like microsoft and amazon and instead of monetizing the browser become a bigger competitor to google et al viz vi cloud services. They also could build products for developers to use for browser testing across multiple platforms, etc...
I don't see premium firefox taking off, but more competition with AWS, Azure, GCP is never a bad thing, or maybe they do something like Brave Browser and merge crypto with browsing though that seems tenuous compared to some other options.