> ...this would have changed the entire web because people would have flocked to Firefox.

One cannot compete with those who hold the choke points. Google owned the Web when they launched Chrome. Microsoft and Apple own desktop and mobile defaults. With three major competitors setting defaults, nagging users, and aggressively developing their browsers, Firefox was doomed.

Only unskippable browser ballots, with random order, and outlawing promotion of owns own browser from a dominant business would help.