The downfall of Firefox is very convenient for many big players. Google obviously, as they have paid Firefox billions. In the bigger picture, an open, standards

The downfall of Firefox is very convenient for many big players. Google obviously, as they have paid Firefox billions. In the bigger picture, an open, standards-based internet which Mozilla/Firefox stood for, competes with app-stores, data-silos, walled gardens and proprietary solutions of all sorts. Follow the money? It took a lot of effort by the slashdot intelligentsia to preach the virtues of open source and internet freedom and to riot against violations of those principles. These times are long gone, and today's tech scene would rather like to build one of those closed solutions themselves than keep the old faith alive.