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by forapurpose 3119 days ago
> This is one major gripe I have with mozilla and firefox

Looking at this page, you seem to have more than one ...

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Right now there are 81 comments in this thread and bigbugbag has written 18 of them.
I know that people can be salty about open-source projects, because you sort of feel like you can get involved and they're supposed to be the good guys and then you notice that billions of other people just as well want to get involved, or at least be considered, and that your opinion is in the minority and they can't make the impossible possible.

But man, how can be you this persistently salty about it? Even just writing all of these comments must have taken at least half an hour.

Yes I do, accumulation over time.

Though most of the other I have are mostly affecting only me and my personal life. This one is affecting my professional life in a significant way as I have spent years pushing firefox to my clients cross platforms as a champion and good example of floss, and each of these changes not only impact my credibility with my clients but significantly increase support requests in a limited time period. I'm also deeply unhappy about this particular one because I witness first hand how it impacts the daily life of people have a hard time dealing with computers (older people, handicapped kids or all kind of computer illiterate people) and robs the of their confidence and freedom to use their computer. I have a hard time dealing with these inconsiderate short sighted decisions as if everyone lived in California was breathing tech.

This mozillazine comment sums it up better that I could : "Mozilla devs are making far-reaching and very short-sighted decisions in a vacuum." and I cannot agree more with it.

I do have other major gripes but these are only towards mozilla not firefox. I actually thing that mozilla disappearing would be possible of the best thing to happen to firefox, without the arguably stupid decision making at the top firefox could be a top notch browser, or could have been sadly.

It's hard to argue that Mozilla has not mismanaged firefox when the former mozilla CTO says so in a blog post where he also mentions that mozilla head of marketing uses google chrome everyday.