There is at least a group that are willing to pay for Firefox if its ultimately a browser built for the user base against a hostile web. But that has never been

There is at least a group that are willing to pay for Firefox if its ultimately a browser built for the user base against a hostile web. But that has never been on offer, donations have always only ever been for Mozilla as a whole and the past decade has been no end of user hostile projects one after the other combined with other projects people want nothing to do with. I don't know if its possible because its not been tried, but it doesn't work from a low trust position and Mozilla is very much not trusted.