> Healthy food doesn't nearly as much rely no network effect to not be pushed out of the market. "Only works on Chrome" is real problem and won't get better if they don't also pander to those longing for sugar.

Users who are sick of the effects of unhealthy food will actively seek out Firefox. I and many others were willing to put up with the bugs and slowness of Firefox to leave Internet Explorer.

And when websites were IE6-only, the attitude was not that Firefox needed to win them over, but instead it was too bad for that site they would not get traffic from Firefox users.

And Firefox could afford to not be the best browser for all users, because they are a non-profit, and are not constrained by the same market dynamics as their competitors.

Firefox does not and should not pander to users wanting the sugar, because it will likely drive away loyal users more than it will win anyone over. And again, they can certainly afford to not win those users over. Their browser is not a cog in a content distribution platform like it is for Apple and Google. They can afford to not grow their user base at all, and focus instead on improvement. I would actually like to see Mozilla discard their user metrics and just blindly focus on making something good, instead of something popular.