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Which popular browsers are significantly leaning on individual contributors or volunteers?

• mhitza 1y ago
  Almost all of them? as I recall there was a single volunteer developer maintaining the xml/xslt libraries they were using. Wasn't it similar with openssl 13+ years ago? Few volunteer maintainers, and only after a couple of major vulnerabilities money got thrown at that project? I'm sure there's more and that's why the famous xkcd comic is always of relevance.
• Kwpolska 1y ago
  Google decided to drop XSLT, because the volunteer-maintained libxslt had no maintainers for some time. So, instead of helping the project, they just decided to remove a feature.
  • aleph_minus_one 1y ago
    But by (attempting to) remove this dependency, Google indeed decided to stop piggy-backing on another volunteer - as requested. Be careful what you wish for. :-)
• josefx 1y ago
  Were you born before or after heartbleed uncovered the sorry state of OpenSSL and the complete absence of funding it was maintained under? So to answer your question: Every single one of them, from Google with its billions, to Mozilla with Googles billions, none of them would spend even a cent on critical open source projects they relied on as long as they could get away with it.