> It might already be too late, and we will be left with a browser monopoly.

Ladybird continues to have the appearance of making progress, fwiw:

https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2026-02-28/

And it is a risk for Arxiv too that once they start to drink the koolaid and start going to the same cocktail parties that these kinds of nonprofit board members and execs go to and will feel the need to prance around with some fancy stuff.

"oh no, you see we are not a preprint server host anymore, our mission is a values driven blablabla to make a meaningful change in the blablabla, we have spent X dollars to promote the blablabla, take me seriously please I'm also fancy like you! "

>They will spend it on anything but Firefox, which is the only thing anybody wants them to spend it on.

Mozilla certainly won’t spend it on Firefox, because the structure of the organization legally prohibits them from spending any of their donation money on Firefox. The ‘side projects’ are, at least officially, the real purpose of Mozilla.