
They care nothing for privacy, nor do they care about extensibility, especially when it allows users to do such radical things as block advertisements and cull cookies on exit. I am using 9.0 now, despite its drawbacks, because I will never use a closed, bundled, or corporate tied browser. It can't do that without market share, and it won't gain market share without native UI. The secondary function of Firefox is to keep them honest. If our choices in browsers were limited to offerings from Apple, Google, and Microsoft, the world would be a very dreary place, indeed. Now, there are many stable and secure browser platforms. Your Firefox app is going to get an update soon: Bug: Possible Memory Corruption (Google Pixel 6a Mali-G78). Firefox could survive then as long as it wasn't IE. It looks like Firefox 104.x.x is causing Pixel 6A running Android 13 to restart.


There was a time at which the primary function of Firefox was to be the alternative to the broken and dilapidated IE. They have to make gains in speed and memory if they are going to see gains in market share among typical users who aren't that concerned with issues of openness, licensing, and lack of corporate ties.
