[froydnj]

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla)

The problem with our own browsing data--by which I'm assuming you mean the browsing habits of our ~1000 employees--is that it's wildly non-representative of the broader population. For instance, people here routinely have browser sessions with 10, 100, or even 1000+ tabs. These numbers also indicate that the browser is an application you start, and then you just leave up for a while, perhaps until you restart your computer or you have to update for whatever reason.

The latest statistics we collected on a broader sample of users indicates that the average number of tabs is...2. The average session length is on the order of minutes, not days. Such knowledge leads to very different choices when deciding what browser features to prioritize.

And it's not just browsing usage, either: most employees probably have a top-of-the line (or close to it) Mac laptop, Windows desktop, or Linux desktop; developers have a machine with four, eight, or even more cores. These machines are hardly representative of the wider Firefox user base: a significant majority of our users (~70%) has a machine with two cores, and users with a single core in their machines outnumber users with 8+ cores. We'll not even cover graphics hardware or screen resolution here; see https://hardware.metrics.mozilla.com/ for more examples.

Using our own browsing habits and our own machine specs for making decisions is not feasible.

[madez]

Then I realize Firefox is not a browser made for me. I don't care about the marketshare of my browser. I want it to to make my browsing easier and faster, while never compromising on security and privacy. _Any_ outgoing connection without my action is not OK. Not even Googles Safe browsing. If have to decide between having both Javascript and Google Safe Browsing, or neither, I would take the latter.

I value the expertise at Mozilla. Could you point to a browser that might fit me?

[zaro]

Thnak you for the detailed explanation!