Mozilla destroyed their own platform - by removing its most significant feature, which was deep extensibility, instead of fixing it to keep that feature.<p>> That's how Mozilla works: slowly, collaboratively, trying to speak for everyone.<p>I don't remember Mozilla works collaboratively. By the way - remind me where they publish their income sources again?<p>> "the power of the internet used to magnify divisiveness, incite violence, promote hatred, and intentionally manipulate fact and reality."<p>Yeah, well, so has the printing press. When someone suggests we should keep a "healty press", that's oligarchic censorship. Reminds me of the US Comics Code.<p>> Mozilla has spent the last several years fighting harder and louder than ever for the future of the internet.<p>Must not have been loud enough, because I believe few people have noticed this.<p>> the company's vision of a more user-centric, privacy-conscious web.<p>"user-centric" web? Don't know what that means. It's like "reader-centric books". As for privacy - when something like uBlock Origin and EFF Privacy Badger is installed by default, and when TOR is an easily-accessible option, and when Mozilla funds some TOR endpoint routers (in countries outside US reach of course), then we'll talk.<p>> But what if people could also use them to keep Facebook from snooping as they traveled the web?<p>If Facebook was prevented from snooping entirely, that would not be that much of an issue.<p>> Firefox has long held the not-entirely-flattering distinction of being the most popular browser not made by a huge corporation<p>It's bankrolled by huge corporations. IIRC it was mostly Google for a while. Also, see below about their new VP.<p>I am reminded how Mozilla had, for years, neglected its email client in favor of the browser, thus effectively helping to promote webmail, stored and spied on by these corporations. It certainly did nothing to promote end-to-end encryption of email, which has been quite possible with Thunderbird, and would have prevented (some of the) spying on users.<p>> So far, Firefox has blocked 1.6 trillion tracking requests<p>That means it doesn't block most tracking requests.<p>> Alan Davidson ... new VP of policy ... has been working ... at Google and then as President Barack Obama's director of digital economy<p>So one of the top people at the spying-B-us corporation and the "can't have privacy and security" administration is the new VP who'll help protect us from his former colleagues and bosses? Uh-huh.