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For the past years FF updates seem to focus on the fact that: One-two new color themes are available: "Try these out, tune your browser! Look at the 1000th time we're shilling Pocket because people like bookmarks!" instead of appealing to the more important aspects of a browser like firefox which is chosen by "more tech literate people": precisely because it's not chrome; for usability, privacy, features not being removed in the name of "reshaping the web", customization, etc.

Also, let's hit a nerve here: Mozilla& Co, ideologically speaking, and by "following the money", are mostly the same hand dealt as Google.I speak for myself but i'm sure many other people also use FF only because there are legitimately no other options besides Chrome, except maybe some obscure ones like qutebrowser/browsh/lynx/etc which aren't really something you jump to for daily driving due to the pain of installation/usage.That or maybe one still has to close/migrate/transition the google/mozilla account for the bookmarks sync features, which is the only useful feature and reason why one should use these 2(/3 including edge I guess) browsers.

To answer your question(s), I would do nothing, because I won't save Firefox.If they save themselves that's fine, but with a fresh memory of the netscape days and the battle of the browsers for the "advertisement bucks", this is not the first rodeo of the company/project/browser, and the usability of the browser is, again, the only reason i'm using it.As a side note, they're way too political for my taste.



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