I’d happily purchase Firefox (heck, I purchased Netscape Navigator back in the day too).

If they offered some kind of release channel that is ahead of the FOSS release (say where they’ve added aggressive anti-fingerprinting features and have conducted official testing of a set of popular extensions to guarantee support or whatever), I’d be all in.

Another thing that really bothers me is the lack of stewardship from Moz. HTTP, JS, CSS, HTML etc are due a major shakeup.

I’d be really intrigued by some new standards for web application development, led by Moz. And I’d happily pay to push that forward and be an early adopter.

I loathe the state of web right now and with so many users bouncing off of browsers to dedicated apps, I don’t think we’re going to see any meaningful change before web as we know it dies.

The browser as a cross-platform abstraction is excellent but the web needs to look at how mobile app development is conducted (sandboxed with strict APIs and optional UI frameworks etc so something can look native if it so desires).

Mozilla was that company, once as Netscape and again in those early years as Phoenix rose from the ashes and Firebird shifted to Firefox.

But they instead tried to figure out where they exist as a tech company rather than a defacto reference implementation of standards they helped define.

Come on, Moz. Let us fund that path!