It's the result of Google throwing their full weight behind Chrome. It's insane not to expect the #1 cash-generating business to take a large bite out of Firefo

It's the result of Google throwing their full weight behind Chrome. It's insane not to expect the #1 cash-generating business to take a large bite out of Firefox when they set their mind on creating a browser that ticks all the marks of Mozilla's goals as well: standards-compliant (or setting), fast, secure, open, extensible etc. And Chrome is now at the absolute core of Google's strategy: they need to make the open web as competitive a platform as possible to stop Facebook's walled garden, or Apple's native platform the future of the web. Because google has no place in those two ecosystems. Thus: Android and Chrome. Trash-talking Mozilla is only going to make their funding dry up and/or demotivate their employees. But it's in everyone's interest to make sure they thrive. It's only a coincidence that Google and the public's interest are currently aligned. There will come a time in the future where we'll desperately need the competitor that is Firefox. Let's not forget that they were ones lighting a fire under IE from around 2005-2012. Who knows where we'd be without them – .docx instead of .html?