If you haven’t been following the Google vs. US Justice Department antitrust case, you probably didn’t know that Google tried extremely hard to avoid having any trial documents posted online. That was eventually overturned by Judge Amit Mehta, who is overseeing the case.
I went back to Firefox about a year ago and it’s been fine. There are some things I don’t like, but I don’t want to use Chrome or anything based on Chromium. That leaves me with Safari and Firefox. I used Safari for a long time, but wanted something that could sync between macOS, Linux, and Windows.