Saying that tabs-on-top killed Firefox when it's literally used by the winning browser (Chrome) as well as Edge and Brave is such a peak Hacker News moment. Nit

Saying that tabs-on-top killed Firefox when it's literally used by the winning browser (Chrome) as well as Edge and Brave is such a peak Hacker News moment. Nitpicking for the one detail that person didn't like and making it look like an obvious mistake everyone else should have seen but somehow hasn't. Firefox lost because they couldn't keep up and there was little justification for why do you need to use it unless you have sophisticated needs. And the fewer users they had, the less money (coming from the deal with Google) they had to spend on development. This feedback look is what killed Firefox and left it a niche project. Mozilla's management is also to blame. They expanded into a whole plethora of projects that all have been killed, they bought Pocket and did nothing with it. Yes, it's a non-profit, but there have been discussions on their salaries and bonuses that weren't exactly tied to the one and only metric that mattered – Firefox's share of the total market. When I first started using Firefox it was Firefox 1.5. Back then it was literally useless without addons and you'd build it yourself, basically. And that made sense because the alternative was to use IE 6 (or Opera). But Google managed to produce a browser that was good enough and every tech person installed it at their parents' computers.