What happens to PM if Firefox disappears tomorrow?

[moonbat]

Posting this in off-topic, but maybe move it to General if it's relevant there.
Suppose Firefox were to vanish - maybe they throw in the towel with Gecko and just hurry up and turn into a Blink wrapper, or Mozilla goes bankrupt; the reasons could be many.

How badly would Pale Moon development be affected? As I understand the main dependency is for security fixes. Can the project continue further in a Google dominated web without having Firefox code for reference (granted that the code bases have long diverged, the use of Rust etc)?

[RealityRipple]

Depends if them disappearing also means bugzilla and all the associated code repositories/source patches/etc disappear too. There's still often things from before the rustification that are imported or adapted; there's blame logs and other things for narrowing down when or why a line was added (honestly there's a lot of poorly documented "cleanup" or other changes even with all the tools) which help with improvements or regressions. Then there's also NSS. If that continues development on its own, that's one thing, but if it disappears as well, that's gonna be a major problem going forward.

[Moonchild]

The main issue would really only be bugzilla and its many thousands of man-hours of bug documentation as a resource. Since that's pretty much in-house for Mozilla with restricted security sensitive and internal corporate bugs being used, I see that possibly disappearing, although I think someone within Mozilla could be persuaded to make the public-tagged bugs available as a dump or a stripped-down db version for someone else to host.
Blame logs? We already have both mercurial and git repositories with full history. Those are public and easily cloned -- Not a problem.
NSS? That will most likely be taken over by someone else because it's widely used by many in the *nix sphere. I could see e.g. Red Hat or Canonical or Oracle taking that over.

So the project can continue, but more so than before it'd be a fight against monoculture... Although Google might actually slow down their madness if there is no longer an incentive to constantly push churn to "stay ahead" if there no longer is any perceived competition. Things will change; I don't have a crystal ball to know what would happen, though.