Firefox is on a slippery slope
Watching the whole thing unfold has been heartbreaking. Most mozillians do not support this. This Twitter thread is one insight into it: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;steveklabnik&#x2F;status&#x2F;941709048529014784" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;steveklabnik&#x2F;status&#x2F;941709048529014784</a><p>Firefox 57 gained a ton of good will from a lot of users, and they pull this crap right after. They absolutely should know better. They should have known better with Pocket; they should have learned <i>from</i> Pocket.<p>&quot;Fork it&quot; is not an acceptable answer. The problem is not with Firefox, it&#x27;s with <i>Mozilla</i>. Mozilla is a <i>good</i> company at heart and they&#x27;re an important pillar of the web. Losing them to stupid stuff like this sucks, we should fight for them. There&#x27;s tons of Firefox forks, none of them get the point though, you might as well use Chromium. If Firefox disappears and the fork remains, the fork dies because maintaining a web browser is work that needs a corporation&#x27;s backing behind it (or a government&#x27;s).<p>Mozilla&#x27;s role goes beyond the web browser as well. Its mission was to &quot;keep the web open&quot;, &quot;keep the web free&quot;. This goal was reflected in projects such as Firefox OS, Hello and Persona (and to some extent, Thunderbird)... but atrocious management made those projects a waste of time and money.<p>It&#x27;s not Firefox you need to fork, it&#x27;s Mozilla.