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> some of the decisions I see would make much more sense to me if I knew top management was somehow in Googles pocket.

Consider.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/15/21370020/mozilla-google-f...

They are in google pockets for 95% of revenue. But I think as a browser with a smaller market they join things and change things to be like everyone else.

There was a recent change to facebook picture albums that lazily loads pictures as you scroll. In large albums this grinds to a halt after a few pages and each scroll takes 30 seconds to load the next set of images. Chrome handles this smoothly. For social media I had to switch to chrome.

Firefox is still better for privacy and I use it when I can even though it feels like it's slowing down after each upgrade.

> 3. I always hope something will change and Firefox will become really really great again or someone will fork it.

Abrowser (from trisquel) is what firefox should have been. Best fork out there imo.