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1. Comment - Can Mozilla escape a premature endgame for Firefox?

   (Mar 22, 2009 - 11:30 PM)

   If Google Chrome makes an add-on system that allows a really good Adblocker, and if someone steps up to the plate and provides that Adblocker, I think I agree that Firefox will basically die. The great thing about Firefox is the extensions. If Google Chrome is able to build an ecosystem of good extensions, the development rate of Chrome is much faster, and for the behemoth quad core systems that most people are buying, a browser that has many processes works better. Firefox is way behind in tab separation, and 3.1 that was supposed to take half a year to release is taking a year.
   The only holdouts who will keep Firefox alive at a minimal level are people who are attached to the particular extensions they know and love, and Linux "freedom loonies" who will be afraid that Google is spying on them.
   
   On the other hand, if Google's "add ons" are limited and lame like those in IE, etc., they have no chance.