You put the blame on Google but isn't it your fault, people who get excited every time a new feature gets added to web standards, and developers who use it? Like CSS masonry, or WebRTC, or web components with shadow DOM? Features like this get lot of upvotes here.
This is the truth of it: if people chose Firefox, or another alternative, over Chrome then Google would have less power to impose its will on the web. This would be a good thing.
Google’s power on the web doesn’t simply come from having lots of money and resources - see, as examples, any of the multitude of Google’s failures and shuttered products - but mostly comes from its reach.
“Everybody” uses Chrome. If that were no longer true, progress on the web could return to a more open an collaborative model.
Anyone can help that happen simply by switching to Firefox, as I did four or five years ago.
I never used Chrome much. I think I jumped from IE5 to Firefox. IE6 only for testing web apps.
Frankly nearly everything has been working well in Firefox for a long time. The only two sources of problems are:
1) Long tail experimental sites that use or want to demonstrate some new technology. I find most of them on the home page of HN.
2) Myself and the security/privacy plugins I use. They break some web pages, especially ecommerce and payment workflows. I either go hunting for the correct combination of permissions in uMatrix (I would become crazy soon if I used uBlock Origin for that) or I use that very site in Chrome and the close it. Major ecommerce sites don't have any problem. The long tail ones are weirder in their choice of third parties. However that's an issue that any browser would have, it's not because of Firefox.
