[batiudrami]

My mum always told me not to extrapolate so I'm not very worried about Computer World's alarmist forecasts of Firefox going the way of the typewriter and Smallpox.

That said, while I'm a fan of Firefox - I have used it since it was called Phoenix and I had unzip it off a CD I got with a magazine - I can't help but think this is partially their own fault. Sure, Google has a massive advertising budget for Chrome, and they do their best to ensure that Google products perform best on Chrome - but Firefox is slow to react, and slow to implement - and perhaps unsure of what people actually want?

We continually get useless features - the social API, the "share" button (no one can look at me with a straight face and tell me that shouldn't be an addon, surely), a redesign which takes away features - while actual useful features that Chrome has had for seven years - like per tab processes and chromeless app windows - are still nowhere to be seen. It took Firefox years to get private browsing, and then years again for it to let us do it at the same time as regular browsing. They really need to be faster moving.

[nandhp]

> per tab processes [...] are still nowhere to be seen.

Electrolysis (separate content processes) is available now in Nightly, and "The e10s team estimates e10s with a single content process will be enabled in Firefox Release by the end of 2015."

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis

[wtallis]

Mozilla certainly seems to be far more effective at delivering UI features (especially inadvisable ones) than engine features, but it's important to keep in mind how Firefox extensions can pick up the slack better than for other browsers. NoScript is the leading example of this.