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Why can't Mozilla just be Firefox? I would donate to a group of open source developers, but I would not donate to a huge org chart tree of CxO's and VP's and non-technical administrators and administrators-of-administrators and assistants-to-administrators-of-administrators.

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Well, I just explained you why. Firefox subsidizes the mothership which is doing a lot of non-Firefox activities. When you carve out Firefox, the mothership is gone.

What I'm asking is why can't Mozilla just drop all the non-Firefox side quests?

I'm guessing because they don't want to. Their "mission" is much larger than Firefox.

Everything they do has approximately zero value add to the community compared with the value add of having a legitimate alternative browser.

It’s like saying, yeah I solved cancer, but my vision is so much bigger than that! I also invented an Excel formula that allows shoe stores to advertise 2% less expensively to dogs.

We really need an alternative browser. We have one. But the people running it want to use your donations to do other things that are 100x less important.

I totally agree with you. I'm just explaining Mozilla's motivation.

But why Mozilla has this "mission"? Activists?

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