Sorry for the delayed response! > However in order for a fork to be sustainable it means that it needs to be more than a rebranding, otherwise it cannot surviv

Sorry for the delayed response! > However in order for a fork to be sustainable it means that it needs to be more than a rebranding, otherwise it cannot survive. In particular, if Waterfox is retaining the XUL support, then it's going to get harder and harder to merge upstream Firefox into it, which means a bigger and bigger burden on you. I am aware, but the plan is to keep XUL support going for now until the end of ESR 59 (Q1 2019) and by then having an appropriate replacement. One path was the idea to keep following Firefox except to extend the APIs available (and submit them to Mozilla as well in-case they get would like to merge). > And implicit in this claim is that Mozilla is selling the user out and I don't see how. Sorry I didn't mean it to be interpreted that way! Just meant that the general stigma about OSS + business not working together (although the last few years that has been changing). > Speaking of which, Ecosia might be cool for having trees planted from its revenue, but it kind of has the same problem — being dependent on Bing and thus Microsoft. And I'm going to guess that the results are at least as poor as DDG and the problem for users is that most users will apply the "three strikes you're out" rule, because you don't want to second-guess your search engine on every search, unless you really, really care so much about privacy that you can take that pain and most people don't. I see. Well I believe it's still worth it and from feedback I've heard, many people don't mind the results as they find Bing results fairly decent and are more than happy to support the project. I don't think it's too unreasonable to not want to have to rely on Google for everything? People are free to use it if they want to though.