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Comment by impissedoff1 | Hacker News Reader

Let's not forget mozilla prioritized renaming master password to primary password before adding back in print to Firefox mobile, and it's still missing..5 years later...

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On the plus side, consider how much the lives of BIPOC were materially improved by that change. Oh wait, it did nothing.

That doesn't even make sense. Nobody says "primary password".

I keep forgetting Mozilla is a political action organization that occasionally distributes web browsers. Or at least that's how they envision themselves. Maybe if they focused more on the bug-fixing and the browser-making and less on trivial updates they wouldn't be at < 5% market share right now.

My best term to describe what is happening (and I've seen it in many other instances under completely different circumstances), is that the organization has been "captured". The stories and narrative in such organizations are then pervasive towards that property (or cause in this instance), at which point nothing else can happen and the people that don't subscribe to that narrative leave, making it worse.

This is hysteria. Mozilla's "political action" is minimal compared to their browser work. Pointing fingers at mostly nonexistent institutional wokeness as the reason for their low market share ignores the many true reasons (including network effects and consumer inertia with a "good enough" product that everyone already knows how to use).

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