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Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month
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I think their best option at present is to push the privacy, interoperability and independence side of their product and target European governments on the basis of digital sovereignty. Yes, it's based in the US, but the product itself is open source and independent of the big tech giants, and that can be leveraged to get more support in Europe as the only viable alternative to Google's Chrome ecosystem and Apple's Safari ecosystem.
It's difficult for Mozilla, not because of what Firefox is, but because it is financially dependent on Google which makes it harder to be aggressive about calling out just how bad Google and Chrome are for users. Mozilla would ideally be lobbying the EU anti-trust apparatus to stop Google aggressively pushing Chrome, in much the same way Netscape did with Microsoft and Internet Explorer.
Mozilla is stuck, because it's main threat is also it's main lifeline. So it really needs to try and diversify itself away from it's financial dependence on Google. That has been near impossible but European governments may be the way forward. It won't replace Google, but Trump has created an opportunity in Europe that Mozilla has to aggressively follow.