Why, make a browser that is lighter, faster, and more privacy focused. And with excellent support for plugin developers. Let the bells and whistles be plugins developed by third parties.

Chrome is the product of a company whose mandate is extracting as much data as possible from its users to feed their ad business. Firefox can and should be better, as they could be 100% user focused.

A Chrome monopoly in the browser space has the potential to be more damaging to the web than the Microsoft monopoly in days gone by. They want to make the world a better place? Well, they could have made the web a better place, if they could meaningfully take some share away from Chrome.

> In what significant ways could Firefox be improved, such that it would help most users, over Chrome?

Finish making gecko reusable so people can use it instead of blink whenever someone wants to make a custom skin, or instead of electron for "desktop" apps. I grant that it's not immediately user-facing, but it would help give them the actual market share so that web devs have a reason to care about gecko.

For devs: Time travel debugging. Ah wait, they fired the engineers on that.

A complete new fast browser in rust - ah wait they also fired these engineers.

Not being multiples years late on some browsers features: you can't import es modules in a webworker yet.

One improvement would be to have their actions reflect their messaging. They claim their browser is about privacy, yet I am tweaking more and more settings as time goes on. Sometimes it is to enjoy the features where they are available. In other cases, it is to circumvent their actions which are contrary to my definition of privacy.

For Android, Firefox still only allows a small list of "recommend" add-ons. The developer workaround requires listing them in some online account.

I want a way to instal things on my system without a third party graciously allowing me to, that's what I'd consider freedom and why I try to avoid the playstore like the plague. Seeing Mozilla to not be better either is just sad :(

Perhaps some of these? It says ‘10000 bugs found’.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?product=Firefox&que...

In one sentence: Make it the browser that fixes the web. E.g. Remove ads, privacy popups , paywalls, ad tracking, and other annoyances. Make the plugin ecosystem so good that people flock to help you with that and then people will only want go browse the web that way.

It should be a noble goal that acts as a beacon for others to follow. It'll lose money at first, but they'll keep their core privacy and power user base, until people come around.

Oh and stop following google and privacy advocates supposed efforts to make the web "safer". Those are all mostly propaganda and feel good initiatives whilst the tracking still happens. But that's a long side rant from a pet peeve of mine.

Not pushing pocket everywhere, not showing literal popup ads to users