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Firefox had its chance to push back again the Chrome dominance. It survived against IE and became the dominant browser for a short time over IE but allowed Chrome to take over and eat its lunch.

Now Firefox is declining into irrelevance. The EU Digital Markets Act demands for Apple to open up to more browsers with just cement Chrome's dominance and make Firefox even more irrelevant.

>>rvz+(OP)
“Allowed” is an interesting way to describe being the target of hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising and heavy promotion on several of the most popular websites in the world.

>>acdha+3Y1
Yes. 'Allowed'. After Mozilla claiming they can live without Google's money and knowing that they could not 14 years later. [0] Then getting itself sabotaged by Google for years [1] to be overtaken as the browser with the largest market share.

With Firefox's declining usage and market share, they are essentially on life support with Google's money since they know they would be completely irrelevant without it.

It appears that [0] has not aged well at all.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20120105090543/https://www.compu...

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has...