[1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/194
There's no such thing as web standards anymore, only what Chrome and Safari do.
Edit: I think that discussion is a good example. Reminds me of the Ents' council in LOTR that endlessly debated what to do while the battles were fought without them. Firefox is just living in its own little bubble. The rest of the world keeps lurching forward under the Apple-Google duopoly, and Firefox gets more irrelevant every year. It was once a glorious challenger, now it's just a forgotten has-been celebrated only by ideologues and purists. I wish they'd give up on Gecko and just officially work on Chromium to make that better instead.
I don't think enough users care about a lot of the values offered by Firefox, and simply use whatever is the default or what most people they know use. If anti-competitive laws force vendors to provide users with a choice, I think this could hopefully give Firefox more of a fighting chance. I think it's important there are options like this that exist, even if they are small, because they provide for the needs of Tor Browsers users for example. Where there are no other browsers that match the anti-fingerprinting features that Firefox offers and which Tor users require.
If anything, Chrome and Safari (or at least their webviews) have a huge edge because of default mobile installations. Gecko will never be 100% compatible with Blink & Webkit, regardless of UA masking.
Mozilla makes money referring users to Google.
They have no incentive to make their browser the best, just functional enough.
They are riding on the coattails of what remains of their reputation and followers.
Until their followers leave, they won't change anything. Greedy execs.
That's already happened, and they still haven't changed anything. Even Microsoft was wise enough to jump ship to Chromium, and arguably their last in-house Edge was a superior product to Firefox -- lean and mean and well-thought-out, but still failed because it wasn't Blink. Firefox doesn't even have that, but they stay the course because what, stubbornness? Ideological purity? Poor leadership? I dunno.
Firefox just isn't a meaningful contender on any front anymore. UX is slightly worse than other major browsers, privacy isn't significantly better than Safari or Brave, syncing is more complex than Apple/Google because the Mozilla ecosystem is browser-only, its ads are more intrusive because they're bundled as built-in adware, etc. It doesn't do anything better anymore. It's just riding its coattails from the 2000s, like Opera (which also jumped to Chromium).
If Mozilla wasn't a nonprofit sponsored by Google (oh, the irony), it would've been bought out by a no-name Chinese venture firm a long time ago.
