[clankyclanker]

I'd agree with you, except for Google's long and sordid history of doing exactly that, time and time again (found with a 30-second search):

https://tech.co/news/google-slowed-youtube-firefox-edge-2019...

https://www.techspot.com/news/79672-google-accused-sabotagin...

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

Google knows that every time they release a Firefox bug, FF's user percentage goes down a tiny bit. Repeat over dozens of bugs, for years, and you have a strategy.

There's one blog post from another Mozillian that I can't find anywhere that came out within the last year with other examples, I think it was on HN.

[bscphil]

> There's one blog post from another Mozillian that I can't find anywhere

You are looking for https://web.archive.org/web/20180728122724if_/https://twitte...

[ficklepickle]

I read that post. It was enough to convince me of malice at the time. I don't have the link though.