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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 2 weeks ago

Okay but they often don't give users what they want

You should see the state of Firefox on iPad OS. I started using it earlier this year after they finally rolled out support for multiple windows—a feature Safari added in 2019 and Chrome had only a few months later.

Nice that they finally have this feature, but the browser itself is nearly unusable. It stutters constantly and freezes, locks up, or force reloads with some regularity. In a way that Chrome and Edge (and I assume Safari, though I have never really used that) never do.

Or on desktop OSes, a website I frequented around 2016–2018 used the column-span CSS property, which Firefox didn't get around to implementing until December 2019.

It's been very clear for some time that, whether it's because they stretch themselves too thin or some other reason, Mozilla has been failing to continue to deliver an excellent product for their users.