Thing is, Firefox itself (Phoenix) was a skunkworks project. It caught fire and did well for a time precisely outside of the bounds of Mozilla mgmt. So in a wa

Thing is, Firefox itself (Phoenix) was a skunkworks project. It caught fire and did well for a time precisely outside of the bounds of Mozilla mgmt. So in a way it's more of an open question of what would happen to Firefox without Mozilla's patronage, or with reduced budget.