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> They're going to end up with no users at all.

This has already happened. I'd be surprised if there were a single month they gained users over the last five years.

It all started with version 37 when they decided that software freedoms didn't matter and only allowed users to install/use extensions approved by Mozilla. Then dropping their entire extension ecosystem and burning it to the ground made everyone realize what was happening. Now there is no XUL, 1/20th the amount of add-ons, and the ones that do exist don't have the power to restore features of the GUI Mozilla removes. All that's left is a relatively quick (but crashy, because low level features) chrome-clone-in-spirit.

It's also very difficult to keep two separate Firefox installations from interfering with each other, so a lot of people like me switched to using Chrome for 90% of their browsing and kept an old version of Firefox for some use case they couldn't do without.

Don't install it. Use portable Firefox. I've been using portable variants exclusively for the last 10 years.

I tried that but I couldn't get it to save anything. Settings, extensions, tabs, etc would reset every time I exited it.

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