They drove customers away with the changes and price increases. TBH only the willing captives are using VMware at this point.

Which pretty much points to Google being the actual competitor who is behaving in an anti-competitive fashion. However, as Google is their main source of revenue, Mozilla realistically can't bite the hand that feeds it.

Actually, when mobile devices are thrown into the mix, the OS market share breaks down like this:

Microsoft may still command the lion's share of OS installations in the PC desktop market, but the PC desktop market is now a minority portion of the installed computing base. The question Mozilla should be asking is why aren't people using Firefox on Android.

If you think that's something, wait until you see what Apple's gotten away with on iOS.

Okay, I'm gonna pretend I don't know anything about downloading and installing a browser and just go the Microsoft Store and search for "Firefox". Yup, it's there. Now, I'll try for Google Chrome. How odd, it isn't available.

Surely the browser that you can't even get from Microsoft's app store would have less market share, right? Nope, according to the data, Chrome is still on top, despite the fact that you have to manually download and install it on Windows.

I doubt this occurred to Mozilla, but perhaps people just don't want to use Firefox? Crazy, I know.

I guess this explains why one can search for "pussy" but not for "penis".

PETA was never about animal rights. They have always been about virtue signaling and trying to control other people's lives. And nothing else.

They were shittified from day one.

Who says so? Certainly not me.

Since your premise is stupid, the rest isn't worth reading.

EFF is only one of many contributors to the enshittification, including the owners. But they are certainly guilty of contributing.

EFF isn't dumping X because of any confusion over the line between politics and work. They're dumping X because nobody bothers with it any more.

Why do you supposed nobody bothers with it any more?

That's easily fixed: Avoid any system that automatically locates potholes. If the city polices their own pothole location data, it can conveniently become permanently lost before a court case.

This is why government avoids a lot of 'improvements': It's not increasing quality and efficiency, it's making them responsible for tax-cuts, "right-sizing" and inflation.

Are you referring to Twitter or the FFS? GPL use in new projects has been steadily declining. The "cool kids" are going MIT and Apache.

App usage, License usage, ... things evolve, newer entries make improvements.

Nothing says 'survival' wages or "you're disposable", like the absence of health-care. Once again, it's a US employer's market and they are ensuring the employees cut their own throat. With trained AI machines for their workforce, they can stop paying wages and start buying more politicians.

Yeah, the 17e seems to be the comparable

Bad guess. I'm a developer and I also have a Google Pixel.