It’s annoying to think about how much better and actually-used and useful Firefox could have been if the devs had concentrated on making it distinguishable from other browsers rather than attempting to shape it into a third-rate Chrome clone. That was never going to be a successful strategy as many, many people including me told them over the years. In fact, I even got banned from all of Reddit for laying out the case in very clear terms. (And no, I didn’t violate the Reddit TOS. I just got the ire of every Firefox dev because my predictions started coming true).

Firefox was the last bastion of the old internet. Now effectively dead; a walking corpse that’ll fall into the first pit it stumbles across. It could’ve been different and the path there was fairly clear, but the devs chose a direction that granted them the most power rather than empowering the users.

And that was their grave mistake.