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Firefox usurped the then-incumbent IE6 despite all odds. Chrome can be usurped likewise.

Unfortunately for the Mozilla fanbois, though, Firefox won't be an usurper a second time because as already mentioned it's degenerated into simply a Chrome ripoff.

A new competitor can usurp the throne, but it needs to be a genuinely better product to do that and Firefox today is not a genuinely better product.

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I used Firefox back then because it was faster and performed better.

Then I used chrome because it was faster and performed better.

Now I use safari because its fast enough and chrome is getting creepy.

If you bother to read the research they've done it makes the case that most people never change the default browser.

That's basically how most people 'choose' their browser.

It also goes over how every other browser engine is actually a Chrome ripoff - some UX changes don't make that so.

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