internet explorer was left to stagnant

And Opera abandoned their engine.

Mozilla… broad base

The issue is that Mozilla’s broadness doesn’t improve its revenue steam, it just spreads money around. They do a ton of outreach programs, research, etc, but none of those result in revenue. Most of its revenue is from Google search, and Google only pays for that to keep Firefox around as a competitor so they don’t get hit with antitrust. Google wants Firefox to exist, but to always be slightly inferior so people prefer Chrome.

I think Mozilla needs reliable revenue streams, for example:

• they finally integrated their VPN with container tabs, but they don’t advertise it much
• their password management doesn’t work on mobile apps - perhaps integrate with something like Bitwarden and charge for the full experience - I pay for Bitwarden, and would consider using Mozilla cobranded instead if it integrated with Firefox
• cobranded secure email like ProtonMail, with features built in to Firefox (would be nice to manage PGP keys for secure SM messages and whatnot)
• cobranded payment service, like privacy.com or similar, integrated with Firefox’s credit card remembering system
• ad-replacement like Brave, but actually share profits with sites - base suggestions on local browsing history, have users pay with a bucket-like system, and provide sites with statistics; then go hard on privacy-respecting tracker blocking

And so on. Basically, put together a lot of privacy-respecting services and charge for each one. That way users are funding Firefox’s development, not an ad company.