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Wonder how many people are still working on Firefox at Mozilla. Seems to me the users voted for Chrome and soon there won't be a Firefox to talk of.

Users are stupid, can't fix that.

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Mozilla-the-company had the most crazy confused direction, mission and leadership and basically squandered a whole lot of money too.

They are forced to spend all/most their money every year. They can't save their money like a regular company due to their status.

They should spend their money paying more engineers then, instead of laying off 250 people last year and upping bonuses for the C-level staff.

You can read the financial statements and see that this is mistaken. The latest is https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2019/

On the other hand, with Chrome I can run my own add ons without approval from Google/Mozilla.

but as always Google decision to not allow extension on chrome is detrimental to people like us. Thankfully at least we can load 10-15 extensions on Firefox especially ublock origin.

Users are not always stupid. Firefox was really crap on OS X back in the day, for instance.

s/stupid/brainwashed and/or accept defaults set by an OEM that has incentives aligned with profit

Users are not necessarily stupid. We all have a reason not to use Firefox. For example, I do it to spite Mozilla.

Do you, smart user, use Chrome which is developed by a Good and Responsible company?

I don't hold Mozilla and Google to the same standards.

I used Firefox because Mozilla aligned with my sense of morals. For that reason only. Now that they don't I see no reason to keep using an inferior product.

Very succinct. I am approaching this stage, but hard to let go of the fox after 20 years. I keep finding 'reasons' to keep firefox in my workflow. To be honest, I should just rip the band-aid off.

Would you mind saying which browser you ended up on?

They all seem a different type of bad, lately (some not just lately).

Chrome

I'll never use Chrome, given the increasingly-worrying directions Google is taking it.

Google has too much influence and power, and has become the new Microsoft in terms of browser monopolization.

That happened 8 years ago already.

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