> it's time to throw in the towel

And do what? Use a Chromium-based browser, which is infinitely worse?

Forks exist

If Mozilla needs ill-fated diversification attempts to try to stay afloat, forks are in an even worse situation.

Certainly starting to feel that way isn't it.

It's frustrating that the choice is between "becoming bad" (firefox) and "much worse" (chrome).