[liberationtech] What if Firefox adopts Tor as feature?

[Lazlo]

Firefox is flirting with idea the to adopt Tor as a feature [1,2]. This 
could easily multiply [3] the number of daily users on the Tor network 
[4]. These daily users are not likely to add new capacity to the 
network. Is the Tor network able to handle a sudden peak in usage (there 
is some overcapacity [5]) without a hassle or is there action required?

[1] https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/364265592112414720
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=901614
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Summary_table
[4] https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
[5] https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html#bandwidth