New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?

Ask HN: Why are we so at the mercy of Google and Mozilla for web browsers?
33 by mattwilsonn888 | 36 comments on Hacker News.
I hear what seems many a valid complaint about Google's conflicts of interest in managing Google Chrome and how it has down-stream effects on Mozilla and other web browsers. What exactly is keeping developers from making a fully featured open source web browser not at the mercy of Google or the browser's developers?