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For comparison, in 2022 Mozilla had $1.3B in assets and over $500M in revenue:

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-202...

I want ladybird to succeed and show the world how ridiculous the Mozilla situation has been.

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Brave already proved this, you don't need to wait for ladybird to prove it.

Brave is backed by Chromium.

They run their own engine with an independent index, something Mozilla never did, while still on a smaller budget.

What is wrong with Mozilla?

The browser is good, but Mozilla has been consistently losing market share despite being well-funded. There is considerable debate as to what specific mistakes were made, but the foundation spent a lot of money on side projects that did not benefit the browser such as Servo, Rust and FireFox OS. Likely market share could have been improved had this been spent on marketing or engineering work that directly benefited the browser.

They spent a lot of money on their CEO and board, and funded it by getting rid of good programmers and defunding long term projects like Servo.

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