I mean the real solution is revolution and a proletariat state that funds and supports a good single browser.

I also didn’t mention but one additional issue, the thing that dethroned and fucked Firefox is you need a way to push your browser to the people or you end up like Firefox with under 10% user share (and that’s from a browser that at one time people willingly flocked to and gave majority share from the poorly maintained monopoly of Internet Explorer). Chrome has google mail, google itself, chromebooks, android all pushing people to use it and integrate into their ecosystem. Apple’s Safari is so big because it’s default on Macs and iPhones. Edge has any share at all because it’s default on Windows and has lots of easy ways to manage corporate policies for corporations deploying Windows machines.

I think a FOSS effort could rescue Firefox for a while if it imploded but I just question the long-term viability as I think such a project would be increasingly locked out of web standards and slowly but surely falling behind and rotting from code debt. When you have things like Chromium out there that you can just strip the google stuff out while someone else (Google) maintains the engine itself and all the hard parts most people I think would in the end take that road of least resistance.