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There are already several forks that are fairly popular.
Yup. I've been using Floorp for a few months now. But I think a lot of these forks rely on Mozilla for the heavy lifting
The problem isn't the existence of forks, it's rather how many developers are behind them. Mozilla has around 750 employees, so I'd guess maybe around 500 full-time devs work on Firefox. Tor Browser and such have significantly fewer contributors, who only do this stuff in their free time.