I worked closely with Mozilla during the first few years of Firefox.<p>It&#x27;s only the same in name and logo these days.<p>The hard truth is internal and external politics in the organization were so toxic senior-level programmers who were more risk averse were pushed out.<p>Imagine taking C++ pros who advised in the creation of W3C&#x2F;IEEE&#x2F;etc drafts, and tossing them out in favor of node.js programmers.<p>The gray hairs were betrayed in favor of node hipsters. Whatever happened to respecting those <i>who made you</i>.<p>This hits hard. The truth is Mozilla&#x27;s days of glory are numbered.<p>Over the coming years the decline will come to eventually wrestle Firefox out of Mozilla&#x27;s hands and into a normal open source project.<p>Was all this office backstabbing worth it?<p>This is what happens when you lose the hacker ethic. It&#x27;s disappointing.