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If I was Mozilla’s CEO, I dunno what I’d do.
It doesn’t matter what Firefox implements; Google can spam instant “switch to Chrome” links in front of most of the world’s eyeballs. User couldn’t care less about privacy and adblocking performance, apparently. This isn’t Microsoft, and Mozilla is literally funded by Google as a token effort, so they can’t outdevelop Chrome nor attack it.
What are they supposed to do?
There was a blog post not too long ago, where an Ex-Mozilla engineer shared his thoughts on exactly this topic. The tldr was something like
"Don't try to be like the other browsers, chasing daily active users. Get back in touch with your userbase and understand why they choose Firefox every day instead of just mindlessly picking one of the larger browsers like the majority of users. Then build a browser for these users, instead of pushing them away by doing what the other browsers (which they actively try to avoid) do."
I share this sentiment, but it won't make the money people happy, so I don't think it'll happen.
EDIT: Found the post: https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5751
"The money people" is Google which is bankrolling Firefox so that it won't have to divest Chrome under monopoly laws.