We started on Gecko -- see https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10 https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10. It lost on many dimensions

We started on Gecko -- see https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10 https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10. It lost on many dimensions, as it has for other newer browsers. Your desire for us or anyone to die on the Gecko hill would, had we acted on it, simply have helped Google cement the Chrome (not chromium) hegemony. The crucial battle right now is a layer up, at ads/donations/subscriptions/privacy -- where Firefox has been slow and weak vs. Brave and Safari. There will be time for better engines later, once Google loses share due to innovations that attack its deep conflicts of interest with its users, along with likely prosecution of the open antitrust case.