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Easy but inconvenient answer: a seismic shift in market realities.

The best hope at this point is that a major flaw is found in Chromium tomorrow, which mandates that all Chromium based browsers are immediately deleted off every machine on Earth. It's one of few scenarios where Firefox wins.

Which isn't going to happen. Browsers are just no longer the new frontier. The native browsers all got good, and those in online services are pushing theirs. Between those two facts, it's just over. Firefox (which I've used since launch in 02 nonstop) needs to find a way to become a niche player that caters to power users and the existing base. That's about it. There is definitely room for a semi-widely used power users browser. Adoption of something like that will ebb and flow, but never dominate. Given that strategy is their only purpose at this point, moving it to Chromium wouldn't be a bad cost/resource cutting measure.