If nearly two decades ago you were to tell an early Firefox adopter that there would come a day the browser would be "forked" to create another, specifically out of the need to focus on privacy, security, and freedom, they would surely have had a hard time believing it.
After all, the Mozilla Foundation-developed Firefox was at the time it was first released, and for a good while later, a poster child for exactly those values and benefits. And it was as such that it took the world by storm, ousting Microsoft's obsolete IE.
However, time has not been kind to the Firefox project. It has been hit by a perfect storm consisting of a series of missteps by the Mozilla Foundation (which took its eyes off the main product, the browser, and started seemingly randomly dabbling in anything from mobile devices to woke politics), combined with Google's growing de facto monopoly in many key segments of the market.
During these last years, Firefox has been bleeding users to Google's Chrome, and losing some of its credibility as several features slowly introduced over the years started rubbing the browser's core user-base and supporters - free and open-source, open internet, security, and privacy enthusiasts - the wrong way.
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