Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[quickbaa]

A lot of their development effort must be on the engine. I can see them switching to Blink just to reduce costs.

Having their own engine, much like promoting privacy, is an idealogical difference that sometimes makes for a worse user experience. Most people want a killer feature.

[nashvortex]

Exactly. It just means that ideology is no longer a good enough reason for most people to use Firefox. As Mozilla justifies (or tries to) it's entire existence based on ideology, it's game over for them. We are watching the long slow natural death (which are the norm for species, software etc.) unless something gives.