[VancouverMan]

After the XUL removal debacle a number of years ago, I can't trust Firefox to offer a suitably flexible and capable extension system over the long run.

While some people will claim that those changes were necessary, the impact was still very negative for the extension developers and users who were affected at the time.

The numerous other user-hostile decisions made by Firefox's developers certainly don't help repair the trust that was lost then.

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If this is about trust, Google is by far less trustworthy. Firefox is a flawed option vs. a shitty non-starter option.

[pennybanks]

why do you think that? mozilla is not without its controversies and google basically owns them

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This guy is complaining about "XUL removal". Google is the linchpin and progenitor of surveillance capitalism.

[metadat]

Were the poor decisions made by Mozilla engineers or by Mozilla Corporate Executives? Mozilla has never paid engineers particularly well; in the past engineers joined mostly out of a duty bound to philosophical alignment.