"…that allows them to fund Firefox development in perpetuity… ". The question is why the hell are we still having to develop web browsers after 30 or so years.

"…that allows them to fund Firefox development in perpetuity… ". The question is why the hell are we still having to develop web browsers after 30 or so years. When on earth is this development going to stop? When is the browser project going to be finished? A web browser is just an interface to the web, and it's been overdeveloped to the point of absurdity. We all know that almost every web development/API in recent decades has been at the instigation of Big Tech for its benefit, not users. When we now have single web pages of 10, 20MB and upward of 'junk' JavaScript and links by the hundred doing nothing but acting as spyware we don't have to be told who's exploiting whom. (When you get rid of all that junk existing web browsers suddenly become blazingly fast.) What we have now is an almighty mess of disparate standards and we ought to stop and take stock. If we did Mozilla wouldn't need to be continually tweaking Gecko, it works perfectly well now and has done so for years. BTW, I do over 90% of my web browsing with JavaScript turned off and have so since JS's inception, and I've no difficulty—and I do a damn lot of web browsing.