Post #4018271

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Your plan fails because the "branding-neutral base" you described does not exist as a separate entity; it is simply the Tor Browser source code itself. Mullvad Browser already executes your first two steps perfectly by taking that Tor code, stripping the Tor network logic, and rebasing it on Firefox ESR. The proposal collapses at step 3 because the Tor Project maintains their code for a specific anonymity threat model and will not cede governance to a loose working group of other forks. Furthermore, step 4 is technically fatal: "rejecting future rebases" from Mozilla means losing all security patches and web standard updates, which no coalition of small forks has the resources to replace manually. We already have the base you want, but the community lacks the manpower to maintain a fully independent engine without Mozilla.