Good one, Craig! I’ll support most of your predictions, but I don’t think it will be a tough year for Google. No year has ever been absolutely tough for Google.
I would also add one factor to your IE prediction. IE 8 will be OFFICIALLY deprecated. With new technologies popping up and upgrading each day, there will be no more space for supporting IE 8. Bootstrap and jQuery’s newest versions don’t support it anymore. So this may be another point for Firefox advancing over Internet Explorer.
Well let’s see, the world has a little less than 365 days to do all that. Let’s sit, work and wait.