Instead of cloning Chrome, Firefox could have continually improved the browsing experience. A few years ago, Mozilla could have kept developing Firefox with an independent mindset. Google, Microsoft and Apple don't have to give a fuck what Mozilla and its users want, because there are comparatively so few of them. Now that Firefox has less than 10% of the browser market, it has basically no influence over how the other more dominant browser developers have to act.
Even IE 11 is providing people a better browsing experience than Firefox is for many people these days, as awful as that sounds. And because of all of these factors, users have had to leave Firefox for a better browsing experience elsewhere. Firefox is still slower and more bloated than its competitors.
None of these changes have brought any new users to Firefox. Firefox has become unusable for many people, especially those of us who dislike Chrome's philosophy of how a browser should act and behave. Firefox is now just a poor imitation of Chrome, offering almost no original functionality. We now live with the outcome that resulted from these awful decisions.
But then once Chrome started making some inroads, mostly by drawing away IE 6 users, the Mozilla devs went stupid and decided to clone Chrome in every respect. They provided real competition to IE and the other browsers. Firefox had 35% of the market a few years ago. If anyone is to blame, I think it should be Mozilla. Everyone should expect them to act in a way that will further their interests. As much as I hate Chrome, and although I refuse to use Google's offerings (including their search engine), I can't blame them for doing what they're doing.
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