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> Until their followers leave, they won't change anything. Greedy execs.

That's already happened, and they still haven't changed anything. Even Microsoft was wise enough to jump ship to Chromium, and arguably their last in-house Edge was a superior product to Firefox -- lean and mean and well-thought-out, but still failed because it wasn't Blink. Firefox doesn't even have that, but they stay the course because what, stubbornness? Ideological purity? Poor leadership? I dunno.

Firefox just isn't a meaningful contender on any front anymore. UX is slightly worse than other major browsers, privacy isn't significantly better than Safari or Brave, syncing is more complex than Apple/Google because the Mozilla ecosystem is browser-only, its ads are more intrusive because they're bundled as built-in adware, etc. It doesn't do anything better anymore. It's just riding its coattails from the 2000s, like Opera (which also jumped to Chromium).

If Mozilla wasn't a nonprofit sponsored by Google (oh, the irony), it would've been bought out by a no-name Chinese venture firm a long time ago.




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