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Most average users have already switched to Chrome. Even slightly above average users are going to lose from the switch to WebExtensions.

I do not consider myself a power user of Firefox, but the two extensions I use (DownThemAll and tab groups) are not going to be ported.

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But when they roll out their Servo Renderer late this year everyone will be singing a different tune. Firefox is already faster then Chrome with the Electrolysis update, but Servo is rendering completely on the GPU. I just tested the the dev build of Servo and it's so fast it almost kicked my dick off!

Servo has been in Dev for 5 years, so if google isn't working on something to compete with that, Firefox is going to completely dominate the web for years.

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