I agree with you about the fact that Firefox is steadily going downhill, but then again, ironically almost everyone is now using Chrome. Every friend’s laptop screen I look at, every screenshot or video/livestream I see – Chrome, Chrome, Chrome…
Chrome was good and fast, but only when it was initially released in 2008 and until 2010. After that it got more and more bloated, with more useless features and now it’s slow and horrible, I don’t even understand why people even put up with it.
The way I see it, Firefox and Chrome are going in reverse directions – Firefox is becoming more stripped down, while Chrome becomes more bloated. And again, ironically, Chrome continues to steal users away from Firefox.
The problem, the way I see it, is that when Chrome was released, Google started some vicious, filled with bloodlust advertising, which got them to where they stand right now witch Chrome. On the other had Mozilla never bothered to advertise Firefox and since it never got better or faster, people simply started leaving it.
I’ve used Firefox for about 2 or 3 years and I’ve always remembered it being slow. Before I (accidentally) discovered Firefox at around 2007, I was some teen, who didn’t knew any better but to use IE6 and Firefox was like a gift from the gods, but even so, it was always slow and when Chrome came out, it was blazing fast.