Passing Acid3 is a nice milestone, but realistically that's a 16-year-old test without modern performance requirements. $1 million is wild for an open-source ho

Passing Acid3 is a nice milestone, but realistically that's a 16-year-old test without modern performance requirements. $1 million is wild for an open-source hobby project, but sadly it doesn't buy many person-years at competitive salaries. For Google and Apple browsers are loss leaders for their bigger business, so they have infinitely deep pockets to play Fire and Motion[1] with each other by adding more and more stuff to the platform, and setting higher and higher performance and security/privacy goals. Once you implement the first 90%, there's the harder second 90% to implement, and the goal keeps moving. And that's before you even have to waste time fighting bug-compatibility caused by the Chromium monoculture and Google's "oopses" serving non-broken code only to Chrome. [1]: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/