Here's hoping! We need a privacy oriented browser that's kickass for dev work as well.

Pay attention to this project and volunteer if you wish - https://voice.mozilla.org/ - it may be a big thing for Mozilla

Market share has nothing to do with features/functionality. Google has the ability to promote their products to the big audience.

Market share has already been on the rise again since Firefox 48, which was the release that shipped the separation of the UI and content in two processes.

People here probably didn't notice right away, since you pretty much had to have no extensions installed for a long time for it to be enabled, but casual users seem to have noticed...

Bold statement!