I think it'd make sense as part of an anti-trust settlement for Apple and Google (and MS) to fund Firefox Dev to the tune of 500+ full-time developers, and at the expense of their own browsers.
- Apple still doesn't allow FF or any other rendering engine to work on iOS. This should be a constant point of complaint in the /. community, but it is hardly ever discussed.
- Likewise, Google has poured $$ into Chrome, and again to what end? Both companies leverage their browsers (not talking about anything else here now) to prop up monopolies, just like -- or possibly worse than -- MS did with IE.
You have WebKit hindering innovation on mobile. And Google pushing Chrome and wresting the basic web-ecosystem to its own ends (via AMP, Node, Gmail, it's set of metrics, etc.). Have Apple and Google done innovative things? Yes. Good things? Yes. But they do not play fair. They take advantage of their market positions in one space (hardware, search) and muck up the ability for there to be honest competition in browsers and the web.