Does Firefox really have any choice?
Who pays the bills at Firefox? Google does.
Down where the rubber meets the road, Firefox follows Chrome in the one significant way that matters most to Google --- it refuses to implement strong privacy protections and ad blocking. For a lot of users, this leaves them exposed to exploitative data collection which makes it is no different and no better than Chrome.
This may go a long way toward explaining why it's global market share has fallen to relative insignificance below Opera.
