How is Mozilla been ever anything but a political force? Like 12 years ago, when Firefox came out, it was accompanied by probably the largest marketing campaign

How is Mozilla been ever anything but a political force? Like 12 years ago, when Firefox came out, it was accompanied by probably the largest marketing campaign for an open project barring Wikipedia. They followed that up with some ten years of "web standards! web standards! open web standards!". This is the game Mozilla plays. That's why they won on the web: everyone does it their way now, even if their browser isn't dominant.