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Please don't tell people to refrain from posting their analysis here, especially when their point is both clear and very logical.

It would be better and much more productive if you would explain why you think that Firefox has a bright path ahead given all we know about it's management, strategy, corporate practices, and frankly raw figures about new installs / usage over the past 5 years.

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Switching browsers is not some herculean task. Its like 15 minutes of "work" and a day or two of getting used to it. And your ad-blocker works.

Does Google autofill transfer over to Firefox easily? I'd reckon that's a big pain point for a lot of people when considering switching browsers

It sounds simple enough but it's not so easy actually. I found myself spending some time doing it, and there were enough annoyances to abandon switching to firefox.

I really want to like it, it just doesn't click for me. There is just no practical incentive at the moment to switch (for me), just the more idealistic ones about privacy and so on.

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