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While I applaud the effort, this just shows how disconnected Mozilla has become from the web in general. I wish they'd concentrate on making a great browser, an area they were leading until Chrome and the mobile web happened.

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You're assuming that the time/money spent working on web literacy at Mozilla can just be taken and thrown at Firefox to make it better. I disagree, and think that web literacy is a good direction to put some effort towards as it relates pretty directly to our manifesto.

All the major browser vendors (except maybe Apple) are doing similar things, like https://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Beginners (created by MS/Google/Opera) and http://www.html5rocks.com/ (run by Google). Does that make them "disconnected" too?

They are:

https://github.com/servo/servo

> this just shows how disconnected Mozilla has become from the web in general

Seriously?! How did you arrive at this conclusion?

If they are doing their best to make a great platform (Firefox, and the web in general), doesn't it make sense to tell people how to use it? I refer to the MDN all the time for JS and CSS documentation, and documentation is a necessary part of living in a software ecosystem. I would rather have people studying from MDN than W3Schools.

they're working on servo(written in rust) as pointed out already, but firefox continues to be the choice for power users, no other browser allows the same level of addons and being so customizable

also, you don't sell your soul to google as a plus

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