Which would be a ton of cash for most applications, but this is a web browser and they are in direct competition with not just one, but several, of the biggest companies in the world. Here are their 2014 revenues: $86 billion (MS), $182 billion, $66 billion. Budgets for the other browsers aren&#x27;t clearly defined, but we do know it&#x27;s a big focus for all the manufacturers and they each have major incentives to keep users inside their own ecosystem.<p>Even just keeping up with all the standards, and contributing to them, is an enormous undertaking at this point in the web&#x27;s evolution. Let alone UI design, devtools, porting to mobile OSs, etc.