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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government
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The short of it is that Google wants to prevent ad blockers from working in Chromium based browsers.
I don't remember if this is also planned for v3 or unrelated, but there was also talks of essentially DRM-ing the internet to block non-Chromium browsers.