Mozilla doesn't have as much leverage now that a large part of "the community" has abandoned Firefox for Chrome. If you care about these issues, stop and consider the effect of your choice in user agent.
> It's only a matter of time until Firefox is just a wrapper for webkit
It will be a very cold day in hell before this happens. Mozilla is only investing more in its browser engine tech with Quantum and Servo.
Mozilla still has nearly an order of magnitude more market share than they did when activex was everywhere.
All of this allowed Mozilla to both build a better browser and show the community a way forward with rich experiences that leveraged Javascript instead of ActiveX based solutions.
With Google pouring resources into Chrome and Microsoft actually paying attention to Edge, competition is much harder. Mozilla is spending large sums of money on Firefox and delivering an experience that is just okay compared to the other players.
Is that really how things are, though? Isn't it possible that the underlying software ecosystem was manipulated by Google, so that they would have a problem to solve with Chrome?
Imagine if trends continue, and every website is just an "app" for a js vm. Then Google would really have the advantage. I don't think Mozilla could fight Google on their own turf like that.
Why should we let Google set the direction that our technology goes?
I hope you're properly bundled up.
Yea they will us Blink, not Webkit...
Mozilla is trying their hardest to make Firefox the best Chrome Clone on the market...
Ofcourse Vivaldi is giving them a run for their money, but I I am sure Adopting EME, Web Extensions, and every other Chrome Tech will really get them their market share back..
Copy Cats always win...