I know it's a tempting thought. Mozilla has certainly evaluated (and discarded) this possibility – as you mention, it's not a good idea. I posted a few reasons

I know it's a tempting thought. Mozilla has certainly evaluated (and discarded) this possibility – as you mention, it's not a good idea. I posted a few reasons for this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655028 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18655028 Also > If chromium is open source other companies could share the control over code right? The sole governing body for Chromium is Google. Other companies get exactly as much control as Google decides. That's the opposite of, say, the Linux Kernel or Rust. It is my understanding that Firefox is also heading in the same direction as these, i.e. towards shared control by all stakeholders.