> They could have contributed to Firefox... Actually I suspect that one of the major motivations was that to have a seat at the table of bodies like the W3C an

> They could have contributed to Firefox... Actually I suspect that one of the major motivations was that to have a seat at the table of bodies like the W3C and CA/Browser Forum you had to be the party responsible for a browser. Merely having some of your employees contribute to Mozilla's browser wouldn't be enough. It also meant that Google could try out new experimental technologies in their own browser which Mozilla might have different opinions on: https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/ https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/