Many people mention they don't like how Firefox apes Chrome. I think it's inevitable in this case; the early successes of Firefox came from copying features from Opera, which had to be purchased at the time, and releasing them for free. They haven't had success in any other way.
My opinion is that Firefox was cursed with money; they earned far too much for their needs and their merit, so they ended up squandering it on initiatives which they couldn't bring to fruition and on generous executive compensation. It would have been far better for them to create a fund which would have given them a regular source of income. I don't see how they can find an alternative source of funding once Google tires of sending them money. People who install Firefox are often sufficiently computer literate to set the search engine to the one they like, which would often be Chrome anyway.
Yet, although I don't hold the Mozilla Foundation in high regard, I do think besting Chrome was an impossible battle. Even Microsoft gave up creating their own browser. It makes sense in retrospect that they tried to grow outside of the browser market since they saw it was a dead end, but they're simply not skilled enough to succeed.
