It seems that the privacy community has a love/hate relationship with Firefox and Mozilla in general. Some will say it is because of their out-of-the-box privacy settings and others will say it is because of the Mozilla organization's “pro-censorship” stance.

These include constant removal of features, bad coding paradigms, poor memory management, and hidden telemetry. In short, Firefox simply doesn't work that well anymore for developers or ordinary users who just want to use their browser, thank you very much.

People look for software that's easier and feels good, and Firefox simply isn't smooth, doesn't offer as many features out of the box (even some common features), and it doesn't work as well. You might be a power user, but most people don't want to have to jump through the extra hoops.

Firefox may not be as popular as Google Chrome, but millions of users still prefer it to Google's browser for several reasons. According to StatCounter, Firefox has 5.96% of the user market share and is the fourth most popular browser for desktop browsing.