The most important thing for Namecoin is Tor Browser integration to simplify it's use for users........How is that progressing? Have the Tor people moved on or are they still interested?
Brave Browser might add resolver has there been any discussion with Brave Browser?
The Namecoin integration in Tor Browser Nightly wasn't talked about publicly until it was merged and the Tor Browser Team gave me a green light to give a surprise talk at 36C3 about it. The next similar announcement will probably follow a similar PR path. I don't really like being unable to talk about in-progress work, but unfortunately that's how this kind of stuff works. Work is happening here though.
Thanks for surfacing that; I wasn't aware of this particular drama. I think it's unlikely to impact us, but hard to know. Definitely useful to be aware of it. FWIW the Namecoin.org FAQ has a section on global heating.