Yup. Firefox alone isn’t really a business. It needs to be like Linux where businesses that create web applications or want to distribute their owned custom browser contributes in some way to support Firefox core development.

A core web browser is an expensive to develop piece of software that doesn’t have a good business model. It’s a support product. It supports web applications and it can integrate/market other services with extensions/plugins. FirefoxOS failed, maybe with better leadership it wouldn’t have, but now they should be supporting PostmarketOS and driving adoption for mainstream Linux adoption.

KDE is a really good example of what looks like they have become a great open source collective of projects. You got the desktop, you got Plasma Mobile for stuff like PostmarketOS, you have Krita, Kdenlive and a bunch of other things. Saying that makes me want a phone to have PostmarketOS on with Plasma Mobile just to support a healthier alternative to Android/iOS. Praise the KDE Project for continuing with Plasma Mobile for what I’m certain is an incredibly small user base compared to their other applications while probably being a huge development project