Mozilla, you make me sad. You defeated the monopoly of internet explorer where Netscape failed.
But now, you're just as bad as whatever M$ wants to call their browser this week.
this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Remember when Mozilla was not awful?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
It’s been genuinely depressing watching Mozilla devolve into what it has become.
Recently migrated my browser of choice to waterfox for daily use and have been playing around with Librewolf too.
While it’s supposed to be more community focused, I’m considering dropping Thunderbird for other FOSS alternatives too because of its roots with Mozilla. Haven’t pulled that trigger yet though
The backtracking when this blows up is going to be so satisfying.
They can't backtrack from this. If they even try, they shouldn't be allowed to. They've betrayed every ounce of morality Mozilla was founded with. This is what they've been since there were executives, since there was a corporation and not a non-profit community foundation. This is what they've been since they took money from the enemy they should have been fighting to destroy in order to make the internet a freer place.
But... why... Why rewrite/redo what already works, is marvelous, and is overly customizable, safe, and convenient...
Why not do something more important and valuable? Is that to just burn funding into void?
Since this "AI" events on Firefox, I reconsidered my stance for Firefox 4th time now, and installed another browser.
Likely as you, I did also donate montery, and 2 people I know did, too. I also donated to Thunderbird.
Why disturb, devalue, obliterate the history of all the contributors, too... This is... just freaking incredibly sorrowful... like someone tries to annihilate it... to darken, damage a miracle...
I'll stick with OxyContin. I'm at least aware it's destroying my brain.
I never remember Mozilla Corp not being awful, no. I remember them screwing up the Foundation's work. I remember the moment the execs came in, that they ruined it. I remember that they took money from DoubleClick knowingly to become the controlled opposition. I remember that they made such a crazy rewrite of the code that it made jwz leave - and then they did it again just a few years later because DoubleClick told them to. Gotta have the controlled opposition follow the madcap "release" schedule instead of being on a responsible schedule and using meaningful versioning, after all.
And the beast shall be made legion. Its numbers shall be increased a thousand thousand fold. The din of a million keyboards like unto a great storm shall cover the earth, and the followers of Mammon shall tremble. from The Book of Mozilla, 3:31 (Red Letter Edition)
DoubleClick and the company it cancerously infected is also a follower of Mammon.
As much I love their new mascot, I moved Waterfox for this exact reason.