I have to disagree on that. If your targetted users are not in a position to decide if they want to use your product, but the companies desision makers are, having your product rely on firefox would be a non-issue. It's free and therefore not a problem to make a rollout to the workstations in your company. Although I agree on you if you target individuals for example with a public accessible system you want to sell, here you will surely lose potential customers by making the usage depend on installing other applications.
Leftists such as this green party are taking it as an easy ideological shot against big companies (they hate them). I don't support that. In Germany the green party is regarded more and more as a part of the establishment, surveys show that most of the people voting for them got a quite high average income. If you put them in a corner together with the classical anticapitalistic left movement and explain this with hate against companies you are certainly far off.
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And also they've invented the walkman in the end of the 70s http://www.retrothing.com/2005/12/introducing_the.html ...
Sigh. In my company management asks for rolling out version 4 which still gives issues in production and now this ...
I have to disagree on that. If your targetted users are not in a position to decide if they want to use your product, but the companies desision makers are, having your product rely on firefox would be a non-issue. It's free and therefore not a problem to make a rollout to the workstations in your company. Although I agree on you if you target individuals for example with a public accessible system you want to sell, here you will surely lose potential customers by making the usage depend on installing other applications.