Whoever is in charge for this decision at Google, this shows very poor branding, customer and marketing skills. This looks like improvisation motivated by despair and panic. A junior's move...

I am switching to the www.google.com/firefox home page, it still has the lean dan mean looks.

As they say in French 'On ne fait pas le bonheur des gens contre leur gré', which translates to: you can't shove happiness in people against their will...