Firefox will not be one of the top two browsers, as it currently is, by July 4, 2015. This one I’m pretty confident on. The power structure in MoCo could be more accurately described as a power struggle. The amount of bugs hidden from the public for security reasons that do not actually deal with security is nonzero, and that alone is a bad sign.

My less sure predictions include a mobile browser (mobilesafari if Apple continues domination of smartphones like they did with PMPs) surpassing a 10% usage share, and that Google will not continue their partnership with MoCo (it ends in just one year). I can’t say for sure, but if things continue like they are now, Google Chrome should be the browser that surpasses Firefox. It’s too simple, doesn’t require a reboot for addons (something jetpack is attempting, but will likely fail at, much like personas), and has great sandboxing.

The real brains behind Firefox are now behind Chrome, and Google has the balls to throw money behind R&D, whereas Mozilla has more money than they know what to do with and they’re hoarding it (as far as I can tell). With government organizations, for example, if you don’t spend your allotment, you lose it. This encourages departments to spend all their money at years end, usually on upgrades for various things, which keeps them up to date and helps the economy. Mozilla’s just sitting on a nice pile of cash and not acquiring smaller companies which could benefit them. Hey guys, CoolIris is neat, buy the damn company. Google’s smart enough to do it, Apple’s smart enough to do it, Microsoft’s famous for it.

Buy Opera Software ASA, they’re only worth $392 million USD on the open market.