And it's not just me. Looking at market share, most users are clearly underwhelmed with how they use their money.
This isn't quite a complete argument; getting money from funding sources who have strong opinions about your behavior can mean that you can't afford to do some things you might otherwise like to do, even if your bank account at any given moment may look like it would cover those things.
Solid props to Mozilla for this one. Good job.
All in all good thing, why are they so mad.
That said, I'm seeing enterprise security companies selling soft forks of Chrome with all sorts of inspection and policy built in. Basically, instead of doing DLP/URL filtering/risk management on a MITM box, they're pushing it to the browser. This helps remove the need for TLS decryption, and the need to funnel their browser traffic to any particular tunnel endpoint.
I guess what I'm saying is... Firefox might want to take a look at what those companies are doing to Chrome and figure if there is a way to make it easy to plug that kind of security into their browser.
edit: just noticed this is a paid service. So I triple down on what I said. Companies that are "buying" browsers are buying browsers with deep inspection and security features baked in. I don't know if they'll buy support for FF when Edge is free.
This is where it should have been done in the first place instead of breaking TLS and creating enormous risks when that corporate MITM private key goes for a walk.
I think that these DLP/content inspection solutions should not be preferred as a first line or blanket solution because they are inherently risky and can easily be deployed wrong. Not to mention creating big privacy and security risks for users, such as when someone wants to check their bank balance from their work machine.
But in cases where there is a clear benefit when dealing with highly sensitive information, doing this inspection right in the browser is the least worst option from a security perspective when it is correctly integrated with the browser and not hacked on.
I think we hit all the features you mention but not sure about the above.
Edit: "website filtering" too
Seriously, this place is so damn negative these days, but not even constructively.
Browser engines are incredibly complicated, yet at the same time are very performance and security sensitive while needing insane backwards compatibility and full multi-platform support. That unfortunately requires large teams, which is why there's only Gecko and WebKit/Blink left.
"Making a browser" you can do with a team of 1 person. Just search & replace the branding in the Chromium source.