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Oh how I despise that CEO. Another example where prior experience or skill was not the primary criteria for filling the position.

Mitchell Baker was the Mozilla project's general manager, Mozilla Foundation's 1st president, and Mozilla Corporation's 1st CEO.

FWIW Baker has been a disaster for way longer than that but it was definitely one of the loudest "I am absolutely unfit for this position" statements to date.

The beginning was actually when they threw out Brendan Eich.

I think that kind of was the beginning of firing the smart people who literally built Firefox and hiring random mba-bots because they thought it didn’t matter.

Now their tech sucks and market share is sinking.

I don’t think it’s the only reason, but firing Eich didn’t help. Also, Brave has been a pretty nice browser with lots of small quality of life innovations. It’s a shock to me that Firefox didn’t capitalize on its unique position to be privacy focused.

I don't think any of these events were mistakes. Mozilla has been usurped and sabotaged.

I did not know that. I use FF on my phone, on Desktop I use MDN more than I use Firefox!