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Edge and Safari yes, but Chrome doesn't come pre-installed in both Windows and MacOS. You and every Chrome user actively goes out of their way to download and install it.

> What does Firefox have?

Every single nontrivial Linux distribution out there comes packaged with Firefox as the default browser.

> a user who is not a software militant doesn't really care or know what browser they are using. They open the "internet" app and browse away.

Clearly then all Chrome users on laptops/desktops are software militants..

> What leads you to believe this is a Firefox issue?

Firefox had at least half a decade of a headstart against Chrome and did jack shit with it.



Google have at times used quite forceful messaging to push users of their search product to download Chrome.




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