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Ironically Firefox is currently at its best and most competitive since its inception. But people lost trust in Mozilla, not Firefox and there is no easy way to earn it back.

I am looking forward to Ladybird, I guess for old folks like us it is the second time we are trying to dethrone the incumbent. But this time around it will be so much harder because Google isn't sitting still like Microsoft did with IE.

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Not sure what you mean by "having lost trust in Mozilla". What have they done regarding development of Firefox that would make me loose trust in their ability to deliver Firefox?

They have quite consistently delivered good software for years.

> Ironically Firefox is currently at its best and most competitive since its inception

how so?

Fast Rendering and minimal resources usage post e10s, Quantum and Servo components like WebRender. While a lot of these landed a long time ago they then took years to further optimise and iron out edge cases. Chrome used to be the fastest while Firefox used to be slower but memory efficient, both are no longer true as both Chrome and Firefox has improved in those respective areas. Compatibilities are perhaps at all time low? Even during Firefox winning IE era it wasn't anywhere as good as today in terms of compatibility.

The servo was not implemented.

“Servo components” were.

Have you used it recently? It's as fast as any competing browser, has no showstopping problems, has native vertical tab support and is the only place you can still get ublock origin.

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