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by alphapapa 3835 days ago
Mozilla is not so open as you might think. They make many decisions behind closed doors, without even a hint of the discussion in any public forum. For example, the decision to bundle Pocket, which has been highly controversial and objectionable to many loyal users, came completely out-of-the-blue. There were no publicly visible internal musings, much less public discussion or RFC.

Mozilla has lost its way.
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r3bl 3835 days ago
My favorite example is the bug report when they have decided to remove browser.newtab.url from their about:config window. In the bug report[0] they have basically decided to hide every single comment from powerusers that was against this change (including mine) and marked it as advocacy, off-topic or abusive.

0 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118285

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pcwalton 3835 days ago
Bug trackers aren't a good place to express advocacy, because there are other forums for that. What's wrong with removing advocacy, off topic, and abusive comments?

There are comments in that bug that are clearly from people who were against the change that were not removed.

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