The direction Mozilla decided to take Firefox truly baffles me because of this. Turning FF into Chrome seems like a losing proposition: you'll lose the users who actively don't want something Chrome-like, and it'll be pretty hard to get users who enjoy Chrome-like browsers to switch from whatever their current browser is. Why bother, when you already have that experience? Even the privacy angle isn't good leverage, as there are established Chrome-like browsers that do well on that count.
The direction Mozilla decided to take Firefox truly baffles me because of this. Turning FF into Chrome seems like a losing proposition: you'll lose the users who actively don't want something Chrome-like, and it'll be pretty hard to get users who enjoy Chrome-like browsers to switch from whatever their current browser is. Why bother, when you already have that experience? Even the privacy angle isn't good leverage, as there are established Chrome-like browsers that do well on that count.
It's never made sense to me.