Plus, monopoly kills innovation - if there's no strong competitor to Chromium, why feel the need to constantly implement new features? We are already seeing a "preview" of this with AMP. If every browser were to depend on Chromium, it effectively allows Google to dictate the web standards (because Google is still the one controlling the Chromium project) and mold the Internet to what they wish. If anything, that work would only decrease. You're already doing this work from scratch with Gecko. You would just need to do gradually more and more "useless" work to port features you want from main chromium and adding what you want or how you want them to behave It's not an eventual possibility, the thing you're trying to prevent is already here. Mozilla has already lost a lot of influence over web standards. Besides, Chromium is already the sole target for many web apps. And if you gain enough influence, people will follow you instead. You can still differentiate yourself from Chromium by extending it. You would just lose any say on development of standards - because standards basically would cease to exist and main chromium becomes the sole target. You instantly gain compatibility with users experiences and websites, leaving you with more resources to experiment, modify, and extend Chromium to fit your vision. So then what would even be the point of switching to Chromium if you don't want to be restricted to how it does things?
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