Mozilla

The Mozilla company (corporation and foundation) with its flagship product/project Firefox were historically good, but things turned sour as users migrated elsewhere and the company's leadership made countless self-harming moves. We covered some of them in the following posts, grouped by theme rather than chronologically:

Privacy

A Supposedly Privacy-Loving Mozilla Keeps Slurping Up 'Talent' From the Zuckerberg Espionage Hive (Propelled Directly Into Executive-Level Management)

“Internet Villain” Mozilla. Can Enough Really Be Said?

Mozilla Keeps Changing Users’ Settings to Blast Misinformation (or Present Dishonest Ads) at Them in New Tabs

Mozilla Hires Yet Another Executive (Senior Vice President) From Facebook, So Forget About Privacy

Age of Digital Deception: Startpage, Mozilla and the Linux Foundation Are Enemies of Your Privacy

Mozilla Does Not Respect Your Privacy

Mozilla Shames Itself and Harms Its Reputation by Stating That “Comcast Has Taken Major Steps to Protect Customer Privacy”

Mozilla Will Relay Firefox User Input (Even Keystrokes) to Microsoft and the NSA Through Yahoo in the US

Facebook and Other Surveillance Capitalists Won’t Save Mozilla From Google Dependence

Mismanagement

Mozilla is GAFAM, Just Look at Who Runs the Company

Mozilla CEO Increased Her Salary From 2.5 Million Dollars to Over 3 Million in One Year (10+ Times More Than Her Peers’ Salaries) Despite Poor Performance and They Still Want Donations

This Month Mozilla Firefox Reached Its Lowest Share (Just 3%), But CEO Baker Made a Fortune (Especially When Mozilla Sank)

Mozilla Waters Down Its Vision of The Internet

Late December Data: Mozilla Firefox Market Share Fell From About 4% to 3% This Year (25% Decrease)

Meme: Mozilla Does Not Trust Web Sites, But It Trusts the CIA Enough to Hire Managers From It

Mozilla Hired Top-Level Managers Directly From the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Can They Be Trusted on Privacy?

The Sad Story of Mozilla Keeps Getting Sadder Because Mozilla’s Managers Abandoned Users and Chose Companies as Their Clients

Firefox Cannot be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management

Video: Getting Off the Web and Away From Mozilla Firefox

Technical Deficit

The World Wide Web is Proprietary and Mozilla Contributes to That

You Cannot Remove Google-Controlled Web Browsers From Debian

Mozilla Firefox in the Windows Store is an Unnecessary Distraction

Mozilla Allows Facebook to Sabotage Messenger Live Video in Firefox for Three Years, Then Takes a Swipe at Me for Calling Them Out

Mozilla Firefox Takes Another Step in the Direction of Being Malware With “Firefox Suggest”

Mozilla Has Turned From Technical to Marketing

Firefox ESR 91 Creating Massive Headache for Debian 11 (GNU/Linux)

Censorship

Mozilla Is Not to Be Trusted and Firefox is Becoming a Mass Censorship Tool

‘Hacker’ ‘News’ ‘Flags’ Accurate and Factual Article About Mozilla, So Let’s Say More About Mozilla…

Mozilla Should Focus on Improving Thunderbird and Fixing Bugs Instead of Eradicating Innocuous Words

Beware Mozilla and Rust, They’re Not Friends of Free Software or Even of Free Speech

Microsoft Connections

Meanwhile, at Mozilla, You Have to Sign Into Microsoft to Use BugZilla…

Regrettable Acts of Self-Harm: OpenMandriva and Mozilla Being Outsourced to Microsoft Proprietary Software and Monopoly

Mozilla Hires From Microsoft for Mozilla’s Board

Mozilla Foundation Harder to Trust After Microsoft Endorsement

Quick Mention: Mozilla Detoxicated from Microsoft Influence

Mozilla’s 2020 Vision

DRM

Mozilla Cannot Claim to Teach People About the Web While Facilitating, Defending and Even Promoting DRM

DRM (Proprietary Software) Already Makes Mozilla Firefox Broken, Unreliable, Undependable (Dependent on Binary Blobs)

The Web is Becoming More Proprietary and Means for Accessing the Web Likewise (Now With DRM and With Limited — by Design — Compatibility)

Microsoft Software Patents in Codecs, Web Font DRM, and Likewise-HP

Pushing Back Towards ‘Libre’ (Freedom), Partly as an Act of Defiance/Resistance Against a World Wide Web Which Gravitates Towards Endless Spying and DRM

DRM on Text in Mozilla Firefox Not Ruled Out

Misc. and Old

It Was Mozilla — Not Google (or Chrome) — That Liberated the World Wide Web From MSIE Monoculture and O/S Vendor Lock-in, But Firefox is Likely Dying

Firefox Becomes as Morally Reprehensible as Apple, Facebook, or Uber

Mozilla Unofficially Joins ECIS and Opera in Opposition to Microsoft’s Deal in Europe; Microsoft Poisoned Firefox

Mozilla News: Less Microsoft, No Persona, More Mono, and Less Intrusive Addons

People Trust Mozilla, Show Confidence Regarding Security and Privacy

Mozilla is Fighting for Us

Mozilla a Victim of the MPEG-LA Cartel

Mozilla Sells Out

As Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich Can Put an End to Mono and Intrusive Ads in Firefox

Tor Compromised by Microsoft Windows, Not Mozilla Firefox

Todd Simpson From Mozilla Joined an Angry Patent Troll, IBM Tries to Warp Debate About Software Patents to Focus Just on Trolls

Microsoft Updates Windows 11 to Stop People From Escaping Edge with EdgeDeflector

Microsoft Accused of “Sabotaging Firefox”

After Brendan Eich Comes Chris Beard

New Claims That Brendan Eich Got Abused and Pushed Out for Opposing DRM, Not for Opposing Gay Marriage Some Time in the Past

Mozilla’s Rob Sayre Claims to Have Revealed More Internet Explorer 9 Benchmark Fraud From Microsoft

Mozilla Does Not Endorse Microsoft’s Search, Media Distortions to Blame

Mozilla Should Denounce Microsoft Windows, Not Just Proprietary Web Browsers

Software Patents Not a Done Deal in New Zealand, Mozilla Weighs in

Mozilla Gains More Credibility by Hiring Xiph.org Founder Monty Montgomery

Mozilla and Many Other Companies Are in Trouble as Silicon Valley Bubbles Are Bursting

Removing Mozilla’s Firefox and Installing LibreWolf and/or Brave, Instead