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If there is a sale of Chrome, the buyer should be required to spend at least 25% of their revenue on the core browser engine and standards development. Browsers are enormously profitable, but a new owner might try to run things for the short term.

I do not know enough to take a coherent opinion here, but if they are enormously profitable then why do we have so few? Or is it just that it has been profitable for Google? I would love to read a good history with details that run up to the present.

Like AFAIK Firefox is not where it is today through having a browser and *poof* it rains money. Clearly, or FF would be thriving.

*posted from Firefox fyi, not hating on FF in the least. I use it as a daily browser for a reason.

Firefox has long been profitable enough to have its horrible leadership siphon off money for all these non-browser efforts, like this AI stuff and acquisitions like Pocket.

what's profitable about the browser on it's own though? user data?