[technerder]

I sadly don't think anything will change unless upper management decides to stop trying to kill Firefox.

[xcambar]

As long as Google is the hand that feeds Mozilla, don't expect Mozilla to try anything too rebellious.

[antisthenes]

All they had to do was keep making a decent browser.

They engaged in what I can only describe as deliberate and systematic sabotage of the brand and any competitive advantages they might have had.

That being said, I'm not sure the outcome could have been averted. Like you said, since Google was the hand that fed them and Google has their own browser, Mozilla could have only slowed down the inevitable, not prevented it.

[super_throwaway]

They aren’t trying, they can’t afford to keep it alive. No one wants to work somewhere like that.