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I was answering this question:

> What childish nonsense has you all up in arms for a product you don't pay for?




3 out of your 4 points were about the low market share of Mozilla's products. The remaining one was about Mozilla's CEO firing employees and taking in 2.2 percent of the compensation of Google's CEO.

If this is your argument for not using Firefox, then it does read like the reason you're not using it is that it isn't popular with others.


> 2.2 percent of the compensation of Google's CEO.

lol another way of framing that is that her compensation makes up something like 30-40% of all user donations made to Mozilla. I think that's far more relevant than whatever Google's CEO makes.

> If this is your argument for not using Firefox, then it does read like the reason you're not using it is that it isn't popular with others.

All of my points are supporting my overall issue - that Mozilla can not execute on its mission effectively while their current CEO is in place.

The absolute failure to maintain market share is obviously quite relevant. If market share didn't matter in order to advance an ideology then we wouldn't be in this situation right now and there would be no reason for me to switch anyway.

So no, I'm not going to make a decision to support a browser that has one benefit to me - its ideology - when their leader is obviously incapable of executing effectively on that ideology. If they remove her as CEO then maybe someone who is effective can take place, at which point my support puts ideology back on the table and I'll consider switching.




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