Ditto. There are still alternatives Librewolf, but they are a fork of Firefox. I don’t know if they will be able to keep up with web standards on their own.

Even if Firefox continues, the Mozilla foundation’s goals are partly regressive. They aim to be advertiser friendly. I wonder if they will block plugins like UBlock Origin like Chrome has?

Being able to run ad / malware blockers is one of the reasons I will mostly switch to Firefox once that change comes into effect. Firefox can regain some market share if they don’t screw it up.

I'm not sure it will be the "end" persay, but their relevancy is declining even further than what it already is. 2-5% market share depending on which site is reporting. Best case, this ends their tranny and lgbt divisions and forces them to focus on product. Worst case....lets just say I hope they drop the source code before they pull the plug so opensource can continue the work for them.

There are a few, but all the ones worth using are built on top of Firefox or Chrome (Chromium). A browser rendering engine is a big, complicated piece of work that has to constantly evolve to keep up with standards. Most of the problems are in the rest of the browser; although Google’s upcoming change to prevent ad blockers may deep in the Chromium engine.

Search engines have always been a large endeavour. If you want to index and search everything on the ever growing WWW it’s going to cost millions. Once you’ve pulled that off try doing well and fighting the search engine spammers at the same time.