I don't see anything new here, the potential of a MS-Firefox partnership has been brought up many times, with the pros or cons for all parties. Then there's so

I don't see anything new here, the potential of a MS-Firefox partnership has been brought up many times, with the pros or cons for all parties. Then there's some claims that Firefox and Chrome are bloated, to which I can only say: you are aware that current webpages are more complex than those of 5 years ago, are you? I strongly suspect both browsers have gotten significantly faster over the years in relevant benchmarks. If the author had done some basic research, he could have avoided this: But Marco is right, the real key going forward is mobile. And Mozilla is going to have a very hard time competing there simply because they do not control their own platform. Firefox Phone, anyone? This effort already exists for some months: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G