It's not obvious for everyone, but Google started to byte FF. I just can't use google search in Firefox properly, they force me to train their artificial intelligence on each search. Google sites are not locked to chrome-based browsers yet, but they work significantly worse, especially youtube on a mediocre machine.
But in reality, Firefox is the much faster browser. I develop very large webgl web assembly unity game (30Mb of code), and Firefox handles with such burden much better, than chrome.
It's like opera crush. To be compatible with the web, they forced to be compatible with chrome bugs and hacks. After a long time mimicking to a Chrome-based browser, they surrendered to darkness and joined the swarm.
Now the last standing browser is under attack of the giant corporation. If we will not protest, they just swallow us and put onto the glossy walled garden.
It could be incompetent team, if they had no FF support at all. But they had and it was working perfect, even better than their hot pile of react native app on linux. But now for some reason they close it, without any explanations.
I guess, they forced to use some "special" proprietary WebRTC layer, for video and audio streaming, which not compatible with FF, and management decided that firefox 10% of users are not worthy to support.
But obviously, they just could not compete honestly, their 4% of browser market is laughable, especially take into consideration their desktop OS share. They have long going plan, to dominate browser market.
Strategy is very simple. If your system browser is chrome based, users would not bother to install chrome. The only competitior is firefox, easily devastated by EEE strategy.
In doing so they are dumping a lot of what they consider to be legacy support. With the advent and popularity of mobile apps, users today are seemingly fine with being told their their services are only available through this one channel.
So why take on the burden and effort to support something most people don't seem to care about (though they should) for what boils down to less than 2% of the user base?
This new, "we dictate to you, massive, breaking changes, and features you don't have control" mentality is a drastic change in behavior at Microsoft, Their adaptability, and building tools that worked on damn near everything, is what allowed them to dominate the office OS, this new change may play a part in them reinventing themselves and allow them to become more agile. But I can tell you, its pissing a lot of people off, from an administration perspective, their OS, and software are becoming a nightmare to manage when not used as they dictate.
Sadly though, currently there is no alternatives, Google's G suite might as well be DOA, they've let their promising online office suite wither on the vine. IBM never could get their product off the ground.
Aside from cobbling together multiple disconnected 3rd services, its really difficult to do anything but just site back and let them dictate terms.
But the fact is, google hasn't kept pace at all, and it largely feels like an abandoned product.
If you spend sometime comparing the functionality, features, and UI of office 365 to Gsuite, it's nearly impossible to recommend google over them at this point.
The fact that microsoft throws in the complete office suite for desktop, as well as a really solid web product at the same price as google is another thing that makes it hard to recommend them.
I really hope that google, decides to invest more in this product, but until they do, I can't recommend them anymore.
I wonder why there hasn’t yet been an Electron equivalent with Firefox underneath (with Firefox being embeddable like Chromium). Mozilla should consider focusing on this (if it’s not already in progress).
