I wish Mozilla would refocus efforts on making Firefox best in class again. It's been at least 5 years since Firefox was truly relevant.
Interest started to wane when Chrome's JavaScript execution blew it out of the water on release but continues to erode mindshare as the development tools languish.
The devtools were just overhauled recently, and Firefox is finally adopting a multiprocess architecture which will eventually lead to major performance and security improvements.
Can we please just let this conspiracy theory die? Mozilla did not fire Brendan Eich, he resigned of his own volition.
If you want further evidence, a very prominent Mozilla employee posted on his blog, syndicated on the Mozilla blog feed, an active solicitation for people to donate to a UK initiative to ban gay marriage. What followed was a massive shitstorm [1], including calls that said person be fired from the project. He remains employed to this day. I find it amusing that no one appears to have mentioned this incident during the entire Brendan Eich debacle [2], though.
[1] I'd actually link to a relevant copy of the page on archive.org, but that updates too infrequently to capture pages that change daily.
[2] Interestingly, when trying to find the page on archive.org, I did discover that the news of his donation first became public about the same time. Two years before he was appointed CEO.
Having had some (albeit very few) actual interactions with both Brendan Eich and a few members of the board, I do not think that the board was considering firing him, and I think that Brendan decided to resign entirely of his own volition.
Do you really think that if he would have been fired by Mozilla and then Mozilla had claimed at every corner that he resigned voluntarily, that he would have just accepted that, instead of going to the next media outlet and selling the true story there?
Interest started to wane when Chrome's JavaScript execution blew it out of the water on release but continues to erode mindshare as the development tools languish.