My opinions (Score 2)

The most important reason why I use Mozilla Firefox is because it is Mozilla Firefox. Mozilla is one of the most important organizations for protecting our rights on the web. We are actively witnessing our freedom disappear from every aspect of our lives, including our Internet freedom. Google only protects our freedom when it happens to align with their business goals. They are profit driven, and that means our rights are their bargaining chips. I prefer the motivations of Mozilla and everything they represent.

I also love Firefox because it does everything I want it to do, and it's constantly improving. Eventually, Google will shift their focus on other projects and Firefox will be leaps ahead.

I am extremely disappointed to hear that Cannonical wants to replace Firefox with Chromium in Ubuntu. I have been repeatedly disappointed by Cannonical and Ubuntu to the point where I've decided all future operating installations will be a different distribution. For my desktop which still runs Ubuntu, I've long ditched Unity for Cinnamon, and I've replaced Ubuntu with Gentoo on my laptop. When the time comes, I plan on installing Gentoo on my desktop as well. I'm sure I'm going to get annoyed about all the packages that are designed to work with Ubuntu, but I just don't want to spend any more time uninstalling all the default programs, and then installing the ones I want. At least with Gentoo, I will never have to do another painful upgrade again (It uses a rolling release).