In India, the share of Linux desktop became double just within one year (from 8% to 16%). I only hope this data is right.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india/#monthly-202301-202407
UX is a very subjective matter.
Bad news is that it is not clear at this point whether Mozilla is going to go forward with the implementation. A post on Reddit by one of the project members suggests that the build is a "rough proof-of-concept". Some features tested in the build "did not survive". It is unclear which did not, as they are not mentioned. Mozilla is, however, implementing those that survived the cut into Firefox. Again, the poster does not mention which those are. It is also not verified that the poster is actually a member of the project team, so take this with a grain of salt as well.
- Careful choice of program to infect the whole Linux ecosystem
- Time it took to gain trust
- Level of sophistication in introducing backdoor in open source product
All of these are signs of persistent threat actors aka State sponsor hacker. Though the real motive we would never know as it's now a failed project.
There is a work-in-progress version of Firefox for iOS with Gecko engine.
But, there is also a challenge that Mozilla is facing as Apple is still trying to make life of developers of other browsers as difficult as possible.
So, not sure how the whole thing will turn out.
The whole discussion on that pull request is extremely sketchy, IMO.