That&#x27;s not very useful. I think you mean to link to this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;about&#x2F;manifesto&#x2F;details&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;about&#x2F;manifesto&#x2F;details&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m going to get voted down by those who don&#x27;t like dissent or opinions that they fear are &quot;offensive&quot; (and certainly they probably won&#x27;t participate in the discussion or even attempt to answer the issues I raise!), but here is why I asked the question:<p>Basically, I just don&#x27;t see that Mozilla is actually doing anything terribly innovative any more. Certainly anything that seems to support their manifesto is dumped when it seems to get a bit hard. I&#x27;m specifically looking at the following:<p>1. Persona: Persona specifically fits into &quot;build and enable open-source technologies and communities that support the Manifesto’s principles&quot; and also &quot;promote models for creating economic value for the public benefit&quot;.<p>They just didn&#x27;t support it very well, or for long enough to make an impact. An identity service needs Facebook-like periods to make it work - Facebook took a LONG time to get to where it was an complete persistence of vision against pretty much overwhelming odds.<p>Ultimately, that Personna failed was because Mozilla didn&#x27;t have courage and weren&#x27;t willing to run with something they truly believe in. IMO, the heads of Mozilla have no real grit and only go for short to medium term goals.<p>2. Allowing EME to be implemented in Firefox. EME should only ever have been an extension, and not baked into the core Firefox platform. EME does <i>not</i> fit into point 2 of their manifesto:<p><pre><code>  2. The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.
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Here is an opinionated view of Mozilla initiatives:<p>* Rust - this is important and long-term. But it handles the underlying development of their browser, and as important as it is, it only goes so far in really making a big impact on promoting an open web<p>* Personna - abandoned, but this <i>would</i> have been a key way of opening the web. A secure, cross-browser website authentication mechanism which allows a user to use a single username and password (or other authentication method) to log in to multiple sites - I just can&#x27;t think of a more important initiative.<p>That this was abandoned shows the sort of short term mentality of those leading Mozilla.<p>* Mozilla Location Service - interesting idea, but there are privacy concerns - they sell the underlying data to Combain AB, and Combain allow you to search on all sorts of things. I don&#x27;t see how this helps Mozilla&#x27;s underlying foundational principles!<p>* The MDN - now this is truly great, and does satisfy all the points of the manifesto. I hope that Mozilla keep this up!<p>* Firefox OS - now abandoned, but this was truly something that was needed in a market that is more and more proprietary. Evidently Mozilla have no stomach for keeping a project going for more than 2-3 years; there is no medium or long-term commitment.<p>So, given that Mozilla largely don&#x27;t seem to want to do anything that they will commit to in the medium to long term (with a few exceptions, though these are already established) I have to ask: what is the point of Mozilla?<p>All the things Mozilla now promote (like the ad-blocker in iOS, which their own browser can&#x27;t even use) seem like things that aren&#x27;t very ambitious; certainly they won&#x27;t change the world!