I am so angry that I will no longer in any browser be able to prevent it and websites from doing things that are harmful to me and dangerous to my privacy.

Which is of course the goal — that is the whole reason Firefox’s “Web Extensions” are a thing.

Google won, but Mozilla doesn’t realize it. The best kind of victory is when your foe is so defeated that they adopt your outlook and worldview and think they also somehow won. Google achieved such a victory over Mozilla with Chrome.

I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but I would not at all be surprised if there weren’t some shady deals between Google and Mozilla that brought this about. Killing Firefox would be very, very good for Google.

If there is no alternative to Google’s adware and malware (Chrome) or Microsoft’s adware (Windows 10/Internet Explorer/Edge), then people will tend to choose the faster one with a name they trust more. That’d be Google.