 The thing is, making &quot;the best open source browser of the world&quot; has never been a priority for Mozilla. Their stated goal has always been &quot;to promote openness, innovation &amp; opportunity on the Web&quot;.<p>The first thing they made was a web-browser, because they had all the pieces and all the people right there, they had a good idea how to do it, and because the biggest threat to openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web at the time was the dominance of Internet Explorer.<p>These days, Mozilla must be less focussed because there&#x27;s no single dominant threat to focus on. There&#x27;s things like video patent codecs, DRM, promoting HTTPS, the ever-increasing complexity of the browser stack, the enticing power of native mobile apps, the lack of an awesome funding model for freely-distributed content, the return of walled-garden content platforms...<p>They could focus on making Firefox awesome and abandon all the rest of those issues, then we&#x27;d have a nice browser but we might have a much less interesting and useful Internet to browse with it. I do not envy Mozilla&#x27;s leadership in the slightest right now, they&#x27;re making a bunch of very tough decisions and nobody will know if they did the right thing for maybe five or ten years.