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> Only a tiny minority of Web developers test on anything other than Chrome and mobile safari

I work in a web dev shop and nearly everyone here uses Firefox as their main dev browser. We do run tests on other browsers as well but we mainly develop with Firefox and its tools.

Although part of the reason could be that we know most of our customers use it instead of Chrome. Don't ask me why, but if I had to venture I'd guess it's because Firefox is quite popular in my country for some reason.

Depends on the country. Firefox seems more popular in Africa, Europe and Asia, compared to Chrome.

While not 100% representative of reality, Google Trends gives that view of Chrome vs Firefox: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/GEO_MAP/1554809400?...

That can change in a heartbeat. It has changed many times before.

Maybe it could if Google didn't own so much of the web and it's surrounding ecosystem. I'm not aware of any challenger to Chrome in the browser space.

It could change via legislation. The more Google owns, the more it’s opened to potential anti-trust drama.

So far only the EU is putting their foot down on that front, leading to mostly localized responses by the likes of Google.

We already went down that dead end road with Microsoft in the 1990s. What's different today?

s/Chrome/IE/;s/Firefox/Navigator/, hello early 2000s again.