Is Firefox OK?

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web.

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[Misguided Penguin]

Downvotes? Someone doesn't like facts?

You’re not being downvoted for the factual part of your comment (that Mozilla have alienated users with unwanted changes). You’re being downvoted for the stupid political axe-grinding you insisted on mixing in.

Exactly. Anyone blaming Firefox's decline on "SJWs" at the foundation is missing the mark. For me:

“Once lost, users hardly come back until there's a compelling reason, and what would that compelling reason be?” says Bart Willemsen, a VP analyst focusing on privacy at Gartner. Willemsen says he has been a Firefox user since its earliest days. “I think Firefox really has a challenge to find a unique position—not only in marketing statements, but in their absolute product—and go in one direction,” he says.

For Deckelmann, making Firefox more personalized is key. She says this includes trying to increase the browser’s functionality to fit in with people being online more. “It’s almost impossible now for people to manage all this information,” Deckelmann says.

It used to be EXTREMELY personalized and personalizable, right out of the box, even without extensions. Mozilla has systematically REMOVED FUNCTIONALITY from the browser, and I'm not talking about switching from XUL. Personally I don't care if XUL ever comes back. I don't even use many extensions, mostly just uBlock.
A couple of versions ago they took out right-click for image properties! a basic function of browsing since Netscape Navigator and didn't add it back until two more releases. They took away my compact view mode. They foisted less powerful menus on me and removed configurable settings from about:config, the single most powerful customization feature of the core browser.
They keep chasing a new Chrome-like feature or look while killing things I use regularly. I don't want that shit. I want the old customizable feature-rich Firefox experience I had back in the 2.0 days.
So many users eject after each interface overhaul or silent removal of basic functionality and Firefox's trademark customizability. Yet they kept doing it. Madness.

This so much!
I mean they treat their users with disdain, spit in our faces with near enough every 'update' and then wonder why there's a steady stream of users leaving? Gee wiz I can't possibly imagine why that might be...

I mean there's a prime example of this sort of shit in this very article:

Firefox is likely to continue looking for ways to keep personalizing people’s online browsing.

No.
Just. No.
If I wanted my browser to fuck around with things on its own and try to direct what I can see/do for me, I'd just use Chrome. I use FF in part because I do not want someone trying to tell me what I want based on their highest paying advertisers for this week, but this is just yet another incredibly stupid 'feature' that seems designed to piss off their few remaining users, ie a standard FF 'new feature' I guess.