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Karma Is a You-Know-What

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Last year, Mozilla fired its CEO for having a politically incorrect on gay marriage, and the gay fascist left, which has zero tolerance for anyone who doesn’t support… nay, celebrate… the gay left agenda, rejoiced.

And so, how’s Mozilla doing since caving into the mob. Answer, not so good.

 An incredibly shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status. “Just two weeks after Mozilla’s top Firefox executive said that rumors of its demise were “dead wrong,” the iconic browser dropped another three-tenths of a percentage point in analytics firm Net Applications’ tracking, ending February with 11.6%. That was Firefox’s lowest share since July 2006, when the browser had been in the market for less than two years. . . . In the last 12 months, Firefox’s user share — an estimate of the portion of all those who reach the Internet via a desktop browser — has plummeted by 34%. Since Firefox crested at 25.1% in April 2010, Firefox has lost 13.5 percentage points, or 54% of its peak share.”

I dropped FascistFox and switched to Torch. What did you switch to?

Comments

  2. I’ve been a Firefox user for years, but lately I’ve been disenchanted. One major browser-glitch is that it refuses to open-new-window to the Home Page. And it’s poor-handling of Favorites and E-Mail is annoying.

    Several people have recommended Google Chrome.

  3. I didn’t have Firefox and couldn’t switch but it’s always good to read that an intolerant organization has paid a price for its intolerance.

    You don’t suppose that this story of intolerance of intolerance will have a positive impact on the next company that’s pressured to act against an employee — or CEO — who has failed to wholeheartedly support some politically correct position? Fingers crossed.

  6. I worked as a computer consultant for a company that required the use of Firefox. I liked it, so I made it my default browser. However, Firefox has become increasingly ‘buggy’, and now it won’t open tabs. Enough. I’m back to IE. All it does is work.

  7. I dropped firefox and went to chrome. It was not that Eich was not supportive at his work place of his LBGT employees but that the he had donated a small amount of money years ago (prior to Obama’s evolution) toward Prop 8.

    Then when it was brought up 6 years later and he was being harassed to denounce himself – He refused to be blackmailed by the thought police and left.

    I am not sure where all of this is really going to end but I do know that I am supportive of same sex marriage and always have been. Who people love is no ones business but their own as long as they are overage and it is mutual.

    However this business of the love that used to dare not speak its name now constantly standing in every ones faces screeching like a harpy and making threats if it is not constantly applauded is getting really old.

    I don’t support Fascist haters of any type so when they went on the witch hunt for Eich (yes, I can say this as I am female and I am sure I had a few relatives burned somewhere in the middle ages) I dumped Firefox.

  8. Chrome was my main bag at the time of the Eich thing, and remains it now. (Yes I know they’re not much better for Mozilla on the Lefty scale, but the product is useful, and they haven’t burned a witch yet.)

    I did make a point of uninstalling Firefox, and replacing it with Pale Moon.

  9. We use Chrome. Not sure Google is much better but it’s what my son likes for schoolwork so chrome it is.

    The sad thing is the gay left that pushed for his ouster don’t care that the company is going under-they just care that they collected another head.

  10. Pale Moon. It’s basically Firefox, only not officially Firefox (although you need to do some tinkering to prevent sites from not recognizing it as Firefox. I’ve heard a lot of people switched to Chrome, which I don’t really understand. It’s not like Google isn’t also a rabidly leftist organization.

  11. In the spirit of everyone’s favorite internet assertion, “correlation does not equal causation”, I don’t think we can really associate the shrinking of Firefox market share to the CEO’s ouster. A couple of years ago Firefox became horribly buggy and bloated. It’s suffering began then, long before the ouster of the CEO. Anecdotally, I gave up using it back then and switched to Chrome, which was leaner and faster. Mozilla improved it, so I went back to using it, but only as my alternative.

  12. Let’s assume that Firefox became buggy before the CEO/gay marriage flare-up. Let’s assume it has gotten even “buggier” since the flare-up.

    A company that can not repair, restore and improve its principle product is a diseased institution with lots of internal problems. The fact that it fired its CEO over some form of “social justice” imbroglio and continued to slide downhill afterward points to a dismally screwed up infrastructure.

    This is not to say that the gays are the cause. But it certainly does point to how meaningless it is to focus on bright shiny objects when your hair is on fire.

  13. I use several, including Firefox. However, Firefox’s add-ons have become problematic on my Win 7 machine during the last year and I’m using Firefox very little now. Upon re-installation and/or using the Mozilla repair utility, McAfee was installed and my home page was changed, even though I was careful to deselect their defaults. Annoying stuff like this bothers me more than the Eich incident.

  14. On April 1, just nine days after being named Mozilla’s chief, the man Silicon Valley tech insiders hailed as a member of the “pantheon of the Web” resigned. He also quit Mozilla and disappeared from Twitter, leaving his 35,000 followers in the dark.

    From the outside, it may seem that the gay-marriage issue brought Eich’s CEO career to an abrupt end. But accounts from those with inside knowledge make it apparent the embers were already smoldering. Mozilla’s board struggled to find a new CEO, settled hesitantly on Eich, and didn’t support him strongly. The gay-marriage issue may just have accelerated a falling-out that would have happened anyway.

    http://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-under-fire-inside-the-9-day-reign-of-fallen-ceo-brendan-eich/

  15. First, though, there’s a matter that we should all be clear about: Brendan Eich was not fired. After his appointment, there was backlash from the Mozilla Community. He came under pressure to resign and he did. The Mozilla Board that appointed him knew about his donation; they did not “remove him because of his views.” If that alone was the issue, they simply wouldn’t have given him the job in the first place. Resignation (after only 11 days in the CEO role) became the only viable path forward when a sizable portion of the Mozilla Community refused to follow the person that the Board designated to lead the organization. That wide refusal and rejection fomented the issue, and Eich’s decision to maintain his public stance on gay marriage — as is his right — created an impasse. It is incorrect to say that he was fired or removed; it is fair, though, to say that he was forced out.

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/04/11/did-mozilla-ceo-brendan-eich-deserve-to-be-removed-from-his-position-due-to-his-support-for-proposition-8/2/

  16. I wish the object lesson in SJW stupidity hadn’t involved my beloved Firefox, but I did get almost-featureless Chrome up & running as an alternative. However, Chrome doesn’t have a NoScript addon capability, which I find essential, & it’s alternative doesn’t cut it. I’ve tried several other browsers but when walking through the seamier part of the net Firefox is without a peer. That’s just the way it is.

    Functionality trumps indignation with me, in this case. Otherwise, I’d jump on the boycott wagon to stick it to the Libs.

  17. Thank you for the heads up on the TORCH browser. I am one who dropped Firefox right after they first fired their founder and CEO. Was so sick and tired of IE constantly crashing or, ‘Stopped Working’. TORCH seems pretty solid so far and the speed is crazy good. Funny Mozilla is getting a very real taste of Karma.

  19. No, Eich wasn’t fired. But he was certainly driven out; all that was missing was a stock Hammer Horror Film mob of villagers, complete with torches and pitchforks.

    Summerwarmth expressed a sentiment that I’ve heard from others, including conservatarian gays: the “love that dare not speak its name” has become “the love that cannot shut the hell up.” If so many gay people were not so apparently hellbent on living out the worst stereotypes about themselves, would there be such a negative feeling among many towards gay people?

  20. Chrome here, too.
    FF kept crashing, maybe 4+ times a day.
    Ads slowed down every thing I did or tried to read.
    Might try Torch as I would like to try a non-Google option.
    Thanks for this article and all the comments.

  21. Mozilla collapsed because their system sucks. Plain and simple. I tried it for a couple days and hated it. I switched to Chrome and never looked back.

  22. I dumped Firefox a while back due to continual crashes, then I has to use Chrome on a job, and found it OK. Opera might be worth a look also, and I plan to give Torch A shot/

  26. I see that you still believe a company responding to a boycott is fascist.

    Just how many more instances like this new one before you admit Christian Conservatives hate gays and want to kill them, since you don’t believe such acts are evil. (Somehow boycotting a homophobic CEO is)

    http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2015/03/matt_mclaughlin_huntington_beach.php

    He’s from Orange County, went to George Mason University, and he sites the bible. But no Christian Conservatives don’t hate gays nor do they wish to kill them /s

  30. Oh, look! James Edwards is back spewing his rank, vile hypocrisy again!

    Hi, James! I guess if ONE person does something bad, we can paint the entire group with it, right?

    Sure you want to play that game, sport? Do people like Spitzer, Wiener, Filner, Kennedy, Clinton, Obama, and Holder represent EVERY Democrat? I guess to you, they do. So the Dems approve of rape, racism, and leaving women to die?

    Good to know, microbe!

  32. Is James Edward for real? I am a conservative, Christian straight married female. My very best friend in the whole world (my female soulmate) is a CONSERVATIVE, CHRISTIAN LESBIAN. My husband who is a wonderful Conservative, Christian man loves talking to my best friend; they have a lot of equal interests like fishing whereas I am a girly girl and make my husband bait my hook. I know no one in my circle of CHRISTIAN CONSERVATIVES hate gays. Ugh, I do, however, have a strong dislike for people like James.

  33. I’m a Christian conservative who’s “work husband” is a conservative leaning gay man. My SIL, also a Christian conservative, has a liberal, gay “work husband.” I resent people like James making baseless, broad brushed accusations. I do not know a single Christian who wants to “kill” gays. That, unfortunately, is the cornerstone of only one religious faith today–The Religion of Peace. James need only look to ISIS, Iran and Saudi Arabia for gay people being killed under the guise of religion.

  35. I resent lawyers who are trying to pass a law leading to the execution of gay people. I resent Christian Pastors who use their pulpit to advance killing gay people as public policy. I resent Tea Party candidates supporting stoning of gay people.

    You claim you don’t know a single Christian who wants to harm gay people. Well all of those people referenced above are Christians and they want to kill gay people.

    The only reason I’m a member of the “deranged left” is because I don’t want to be killed. If these actions were truly antithetical to the tenets of Christianity or Conservatism you would have absolutely no problem condemning these actions.

  36. I resent James Edward’s dishonest and lunatic spewing.
    Brendan Eich doesn’t want to kill anyone. He merely disagrees with the gay marriage laws. And creeps like James Edwards want everyone who disagrees with them to be hounded out of their jobs–or worse. When the Left was a minority it endlessly preached the necessity and virtue of tolerance–that everyone should be free to exercise their opinions in the political sphere. Now that the Left has more power, the mask comes off to reveal the Stalin within.

  37. @pst314

    But it certainly is okay for Christian conservatives to openly advance killing gay people.

    And it certainly okay for gay people to be fired from their job for simply being gay.

  38. Okay with WHO, James Edward? And WHERE?
    The topic of this post was Brendan Eich, whose unjust firing you seem to support and about which you spin dishonest allusions to killers he has nothing to do with.
    Try to be honest for a change.
    Oh–and speaking of dishonesty, the Tea Party is about shrinking the size and power of government, in order to free individuals from costly, bullying officials. It has nothing to do with killing gays.

  40. Lying James Edward gives no evidence that Brendan Eich supports any sort of cruelty towards gays.
    In fact, everyone who knew him said that he always treated gays with respect and fairness.
    James Edward should resume taking his meds.

  42. I mostly use Chrome and Epic (A Chrome based alternative that blocks tracking). I’m getting annoyed at Chrome because it won’t play nice with Shock Wave Flash. I only use Firefox to test browser compatibility for software I write. Otherwise, I avoid it, much as I avoid IE.

    When Mozilla fired the creator of JavaScript because he opposed gay marriage they lost their soul. They sure lost me.