Comment by mdaniel

Well, I wasn't passing judgement upon their forking of Chrome; that's a business decision whether it gets them where they want to go. What I'm saying is that IF you're going to try that stunt, it's just like adopting one of those exotic animals: you need to understand what ongoing upkeep cost you're incurring, not just "oh, hey, I found a jaguar on the side of the road! here, kitty, kitty!"

It's also not a rando library that changes 3 times a year and who fucking cares if it has vulns: this is one of the biggest attack surfaces known to mankind given what it does for the user

Merely as a "for comparison," rebuilding Firefox takes about an hour on a developer class workstation, which IMHO sure would make tracking upstream a lot less expensive