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> I don't see why it's Microsofts responsibility to do whats worse for their products, users and business just to bring some sort of benefit to Mozilla which has awfully mismanaged over the past 10 years or so. The browser monoculture didn't happen over night it happened thanks to years of neglect from the other browser engines. I don't like this situation and don't even use Chrome myself but this is the reality of the web today.

I would wholeheartedly agree with you if Firefox Quantum wasn't so damn good.

I didn't use Firefox for years except for occasionally testing sites. Quantum blew me away in terms of rendering speed; it reminded me of Chrome in the very early days. I know that benchmarks say Chrome is still ever-so-slightly faster, and I can't explain that, but Quantum legitimately feels quicker when I use it. At worst, it's certainly not a downgrade from Chrome.

I do wish Firefox's interface was cleaner—the pocket integration and similar stuff just feels like icky clutter to me—but I've been able to mostly clean it up via about:config tweaks, and none of that's relevant to the rendering engine.

That Firefox managed to do all of this with much more limited resources than Chrome, and despite how many sites nowadays are built to target Chrome specifically... it's seriously impressive. I'd love to see what the engine could do with Microsoft's additional resources behind it.