- as in Europe, I don't see neither how taxpayers money or users time (if still alive) could be forcibly used to cover the costs of some far away corporation savings (on bug fixing) and profit, downgrading then a lot into more costly, less maintainable, not standard solutions.

But I see less of that money but much better used - to support any of open, independent, not for profit, conforming to standards browsers instead - in not following what a big corporation says and want.