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Google's Firefox browser has signficant user share, but as it's a free product competing with another free product, that's probably not important.
As to Google's wickedness, I'll grant they haven't abused their power in any signficant way so far, but they have the ability to do some fairly heinous things with all that personal data should the mood strike. All it takes is one product manager trying to make a name for himself in a down quarter for that to happen, and I'll lay odds it will.
That being said, there's certainly a good argument for sitting back and doing nothing while we wait for the shoe to drop, especially compelling because we don't know exactly when and how Google will undermine our precious freedoms.