> What are we attempting to "win". Again I go back to my statement of compromising princibles in the name of market share
I don't see it as an either-or, but rather a balance to strike. A perfectly private browser with no marketshare doesn't help users. A completely compromised browser with 100% marketshare doesn't help users either.
It would not be no marketshare. It would be the market share you have today people that respect the princibles FF once stood for
Mozilla is not happy with us current users though, they would much rather trade us for Edge and Chrome Users..
Mozilla has made it clear it does not value the Users that desire Privacy, Customization, and Power in the hands of the user. Mozilla has Dreams of "beating chrome" a pursuit I have no interest in and place no value in.
Then it might be more appropriate to say "has attempted to trade us for Edge and Chrome Users." I think it's inevitable that if they continue on the path they've been on since they started losing marketshare they will disappear, and sadly with so many years of audience-alienating development behind them that no one will pick it up.
The only hope is that one of the forks of earlier versions manages to get enough developers and an institution behind it that they can bring it back to popularity, but before that happens we might be calling the internet "Chromenet" and google won't allow you to visit their sites unless they have been signed with a valid Chrome developer key.
I don't see it as an either-or, but rather a balance to strike. A perfectly private browser with no marketshare doesn't help users. A completely compromised browser with 100% marketshare doesn't help users either.