I appreciate that Mozilla is undertaking initiatives like this. I really do.

But in the most important ways, they have become hostile to their users by destroying their add-on community and making many developers flee in disgust.

Without the add-ons that allow greater control of the browser, there is just no long-term reason to use Firefox compelling enough to matter.

It’s sad, but it’s true. Making the browser a little faster won’t change a now years-long history of terrible decisions and user hostility.

I’m still thinking about this piece, but wanted to highlight a great paragraph found therein.

His study makes no pretension to scientific, or rather pseudoscientific, quantification, for example by first defining random groups of dictators and intellectuals and then administering structured questionnaires to the intellectuals about their attitude to the dictators. This kind of precision is often mistaken for rigor, but measurement is not meaning, and humans inhabit a world of meaning.

“Measurement is not meaning.” Four words that I’ve written entire screeds about, less successfully.