Mozilla is finding out what happens when you alienate your core, evangelizing users with some bullshit like Australis.

Yeah, Firefox was already declining by most usage measures, but Australis kicked it in the ass so it went from slowly sliding down the hill to rolling headlong. If I didn’t like the extension model of Firefox so much – and that its extensions are actually useful, unlike Chrome’s – I’d say good riddance to the whole dumbass-infested organization and its browser too.

Australis, though it will never be recognized as such by the Mozilla leadership, is what has sealed Firefox’s fate, just as predicted by me and others.

The thing you realize about Hitler when you read more about history in all its serendipity and contingency is that you realize a Hitler could happen anywhere, nearly any time.

There was nothing truly special or unique per se about Germany.

America for instance is at least somewhat likely to become a theocratic fascist state in my lifetime, and the horrors it would then enact make The Handmaid’s Tale seem like a Babysitter’s Club book.