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I'm really appalled about how the foundation keeps burning money on frivolous stuff like this or Firefox OS* or Persona and on the other hand they killed Thunderbird and they have been unable to release a sandboxed Firefox or a fast Gecko.

* I consider Firefox OS to be a frivolous waste of money because Gecko is barely bearable on a mid-range desktop computer, how did they even think of putting it in a low-end ARM CPU?

I understand guys here don't like negativity like the one in this comment, but Mozilla being a company that asks for donations, I feel like I can complain about what they do with them.

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Your donations were not used by Mozilla to develop Firefox OS or otherwise fund it. Donations go to the Mozilla Foundation which solely focuses on education and advocacy for an open internet. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/issues/

Firefox OS development is not an active project. This has been the case for right around a year.

I see.

There's a clear shortage of engineers in Mozilla projects. Why isn't the money from donations used for that instead of political stuff?

If the guys over at Mozilla don't want to use the money for engineering purposes, I think they should stop asking for donations and tell people to donate to entirely political projects such as the EFF instead.

The Firefox project is literally years behind in security and performance, I think the Mozilla Foundation doesn't understand how critical the current situation is.

> The Firefox project is literally years behind in security and performance, I think the Mozilla Foundation doesn't understand how critical the current situation is.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2016/08/02/exciting-improvemen...

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/08/02/whats-nex...

https://medium.com/mozilla-tech/a-quantum-leap-for-the-web-a...

How does that change anything?

Do you have (multiprocess|sandbox) enabled for all users of all platforms and compatible with all addons?

For how many years have your competitors had that?

You're years behind, losing market share every month. You like to make it look like it's because Google is pushing Chrome with their money, but your product is simply inferior. And instead of getting engineers, you're wasting your money on political stuff.

The Mozilla project is dying a sad death.

> And instead of getting engineers, you're wasting your money on political stuff.

Mozilla has never been just about shipping a browser. That "political stuff" that you are so dismissive of is a core part of Mozilla's existence.

See the manifesto at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/

Our "Stage 1" sandbox is out on Windows in version 50.

If you want to dislike us, fine, but at least do so for valid reasons.

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