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1. Software companies need to support it. My employers both don’t anymore, including one that says it is “socially deprecated.” A bug in Firefox gets closed as “did you try Chrome?”

2. People need a reason to use it that isn’t privacy. I don’t care about privacy personally and certainly am not changing browsers over it. Could be a killer extension or some new browsing system.

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On 1. yeah this is a serious problem. If webapps start failing to work well under FF all bets are off. I didn't think of it. Testing on another browser increases costs of development. But the alternative (being in the hands of a single company owning the internet) is pretty terrible. It's one company that has a single choke point on how you deliver your product. If for whatever reason your company and the monopolist have incentives that are conflicting... you know what's going to be the result.

If a webapp only works in chrome then it’s a good reason to not use the said app at all or if indispensible fire up Chrome, use the app and then close Chrome. But unfortunately Im in minority here, the masses move in predictable and manipulable ways.

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