Starting to use Google Chrome more and more as Firefox is slated to destroy any reason for using it as version 57 approaches.

Unsurprisingly, most extensions (and many of the most common and useful ones) are not compatible and never will be.

I understand the reasons Mozilla made most of the decisions it has made, but I think they are stupid reasons that have only harmed the organization and its goals.

That said, the organization is really terrible (as most are) at gathering data and interpreting it. Their data approach is “use the data to find what we already believe is true” rather than attempting to discover the truth.

Mozilla will be dead and gone in 3-5 years.

Taking away control from the user has absolutely nothing to do with security, by the way (these are not mutually exclusive; that is a false dichotomy). It’s just a convenient cover story. Mozilla is just following the spirit of its times, just as most people and organizations do.

And that spirit is paternalistic authoritarianism.

I plan to stop using Firefox by the end of this year. I’ve already stopped one small company from using Firefox and switched them to Chrome, and will do so for any others where I have an advisory role.