Firefox's roadmap can't stop the exodus

I spent the afternoon digging into Mozilla's new roadmap and the user exodus data. The disconnect is almost painful to watch. They are shipping genuinely interesting features like vertical tabs and a proper tab group system, things power users have begged for for years. Yet the core browser engine and rendering performance still lag behind Chromium in subtle but critical ways. I keep a Firefox Developer Edition open for debugging, but the memory overhead and jank on heavy JS sites push me right back to Edge or Brave for daily work. The real story here is that Mozilla is trying to solve a product problem with a feature strategy. Users are not leaving because Firefox lacks sidebar panels or a better PDF viewer. They are leaving because the extension ecosystem is a ghost town compared to Chrome's Web Store, and because site compatibility breaks on a handful of critical services every few months. I cannot recommend Firefox to non-technical family members anymore because I am tired of fielding calls about "this website looks wrong." Mozilla needs to stop pretending they can out-feature Google. They should double down on privacy as a first-class UX principle, not a settings toggle. Ship a default that blocks all trackers and fingerprinting out of the box, make container tabs the default workflow, and build a compelling sync story that does not require a Firefox account. That is the wedge. Not another tab manager. The million monthly user loss is a signal, not a bug. They are bleeding the loyalists who tolerated the rough edges. The next drop will be the base.