Mozilla, like most nonprofits, has always been run by activists who wanted to change the space the org was focussed on, and it started out spending lots of resources on non-browser things, too.
Mozilla says so itself
"The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code. It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. "
> No, Mozilla was founded by developers and tech people
“Developers and tech people” can also be activists, so that's not a contradiction, but...
> Mozilla says so itself
Except it doesn't in the material you quote, it says (emphasis added):
> It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet
It doesn't say it was founded by tech people, it says it was founded with the (activist!) intent to harness the power of tech people.
It explicitly says (emphasis added) "levels of innovation in the browser market."
And they have the nerve to beg for money in a very obtrusive way.
Good riddance.
[Edit] I still remember Coherence also [1], yes I'm that old ;-)
[1] "Cameron made a joke every 30 secs - noone laughed in the audience though I found them all funny." https://svese.dev/i-want-to-meet-cameron-purdy/
I loved the idea of a mobile browser that supported extensions! But they just haven't invested enough to keep it performant. I still use Firefox on mobile now and then, but largely had to switch to the DuckDuckGo mobile browser.
Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004, see https://blog.mozilla.org/press/2004/11/mozilla-foundation-re...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape#Early_years [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#History