> If Firefox dies, the Chromium implementation, which is controlled by Google, becomes the web standard
But this just isn’t true - just like Linux (which dominates the web server space) there are multiple parties working on and forking chromium - if google introduced something someone didn’t like they can maintain their own fork and plenty of people are.
Additionally there are other alternatives that enjoy 5x+ the market share of Firefox, most notably, safari/WebKit.
Maintaining a fork becomes progressively harder as upstream adds features or does code cleanup. And with the pace of modern standard development, this happens sooner rather than later. So in practice, all major Blink-based browsers seem to use codebase that closely tracks upstream, if not upstream itself.
But this just isn’t true - just like Linux (which dominates the web server space) there are multiple parties working on and forking chromium - if google introduced something someone didn’t like they can maintain their own fork and plenty of people are.
Additionally there are other alternatives that enjoy 5x+ the market share of Firefox, most notably, safari/WebKit.