Because I let my nostalgia of 2004 get the best of me. And as much as I may gripe about their loss of focus, or their lagging behind in certain areas, I still appreciate them for the good things they do (e.g. fingerprint resisting, containers) and for the potential that they still have—even today—to implement user-focused improvements in their browser.
They may not lean into it as much as I'd like, but they still do better than Google or Microsoft in this regard.
Microsoft has the potential to make Windows 11 UX great. They made it worse than 10 by removing functionality that's existed for years.
Will Microsoft do it just because the potential exists? No.
Mozilla CEO takes a $3m salary and their biggest earner by many magnitudes is a search partnership with Google. Nothing is going to change with how they treat Firefox at a consumer-level until they need to man the battle stations with a rugpull on losing that partnership.
"Why would they lose it?"
AI happened and the current economic climate means Google is reducing spending by killing things that don't bring tangible value.
