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I don't blame Mozilla. They're in a tough situation, with their star product, Firefox, trending at Opera-levels of Market share. They're scrambling to find rev

I don't blame Mozilla. They're in a tough situation, with their star product, Firefox, trending at Opera-levels of Market share. They're scrambling to find revenue, and funding a blue-sky effort like Rust, as great as it is for the industry, just isn't something they can afford.

UltraViolence 4y ago
Right now they don't have a unique selling point (USP). Rust could've been that selling point but they instead focused on making divisive UI changes and adding subscriptions. Also their crusade against taking money from Google is ill-conceived. There's simply no other source of revenue for a web browser (unless they start their own search engine, but that would be suicide since Google would immediately cut off their funding). They should focus on building the best and most secure browser and then their market share will almost certainly improve.