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There's no reason to expect that FF will "fall" any day soon. If not for any other reason then Europe. We have EU-wide legislation that demands alternatives in

• zamadatix 3y ago
  It'd be interesting to see what they'd do. I don't think the legislation existed because the legislature agreed there needs to be a diversity in browser engines as much as they didn't want one company in control of web browsing. If Microsoft and Apple were to submit that they felt they did not feel a loss of control over Edge for being based on Chromium or unfair competition from Chrome in either case I'm not sure Firefox would be kept alive for the sake of source code diversity alone. That said, maybe Microsoft/Apple would not be aligned with supporting Google - though I think they would to protect themselves the same. Or they might not even care. iPhones have a significantly larger penetration than Firefox on the whole of the EU but they haven't (yet) been even forced to offer a browser selection at all during setup. It'd be interesting to imagine what the regulation would be though. "Google, you must pay more to keep Firefox alive better"? One thing I'd like to see is more crackdown on "first party browser advertisement" for the lack of a better word. I don't think that'd save Firefox as much as help other browsers though.